A Federal Court judge has labelled militant union the CFMEU a “well-resourced, recidivist offender” after three construction officials were fined over workplace breaches at the site of a major freeway upgrade.
Tzimas and McCrudden took their concerns to a health and safety manager who, according to Tzimas, told them that workers would only be at risk from the metal if they were “lying on the ground licking the road”.“ responded by saying to Mr Shanley and Ms Canatta, ‘You’re pathetic’ and ‘You’re a disgrace’,” court documents say.
The CFMEU told the court that its history of breaching workplace laws should not impact the court’s assessment of fines “because the conduct attributed to it here was impulsive or, at any event, not reflective of some broader union objective”.
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