Building industry and parliamentary squabble over how best to exploit construction workers
Written by: Ned K. on 27 October 2024
Last week the extreme right wing think tank H.R. Nicholls Society held a conference in Melbourne. At the conference one of the Liberal Party leaders, Angus Taylor said if the Liberals won the next federal election in 2025 it would deregister the CFMEU as a way of controlling construction workers.
The Master Builders Australia CEO Denita Wawn contradicted Taylor's position by saying that administration was a better way to control construction workers.
Wawn said, "If they (CFMEU) were deregistered, they (construction workers) would still have the opportunity to be a bargaining agent under the current laws, and, as such, it is a far more effective way to control their behaviour and to become a lawful union by administration." (The Australian 26-27 October)
The Master Builders Australia CEO position aligns with the current Labor Government position of putting the CFMEU in administration and then having the "independent" Administrator preparing the way for a new CFMEU "responsible" leadership under the guise of ridding construction worksites of bikies,
New Industrial Relations Minister Watt said the federal government "took swift action to clean up the union"!
So, at the moment it looks like the federal Labor Government gets the tick of approval from the big builders, while Dutton and Taylor and the Liberal "Opposition" are left out in the cold - for now!
Meanwhile the mainstream media report that workers who ride motor bikes (bikies) are still working in construction jobs and that they are even helping getting construction jobs for people they know who have just completed a prison sentence!
What do the Murdoch press and other mainstream media expect people coming out of prison to do? Apply for a CEO job somewhere perhaps instead of returning to the type of jobs they are skilled at, such as construction work? If construction workers returning from a prison term are banned from the industry, how do they survive without resorting to stealing to buy a loaf of bread, so to speak?
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