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CFMEU supports cladding Inquiry recommendations to regulate for safety
The Construction, Forestry Mining and Energy Union has welcomed the call for a total Australian ban on dangerous cladding by a Senate Committee Inquiry into the highly flammable and life-threatening polyethylene core aluminium cladding. “We welcome the report’s...
Court finds Boral company acted illegally over worker threats on Turnbull’s unfair Building Code
A Court has found that management of a Boral concreting subsidiary, De Martin and Gasparini, acted illegally in threatening to make its workers redundant because they didn’t have an agreement that was Code compliant. On Friday, the Federal Court found that the company...
Safety Alert: Wall Collapses
Two tragic wall collapse incidents occurred on Wednesday 16th August in Sydney. Both were domestic/residential housing sites and both were preventable. Thong Tran a 30 year old Carpenter and father of four was tragically crushed when a brick wall above him (on the...
Workers sold out by Hanson and Xenophon as Senate crossbench votes down Building Code disallowance
In a betrayal of working Australians, the Senate crossbench has supported the Turnbull Government’s anti-worker Building Code, firmly aligning themselves with the Liberal Party’s war on workers. In the Senate this afternoon, the crossbenchers voted with the Government...