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IEU state leader gained from union spending: Regulator

The ROC has found the IEU WA branch's former secretary appears to have benefited from spending union funds but has decided not to pursue the matter given the time, resources and cost it would require and the branch's desire to drop it.

ROC to seek fines for 27,000 AWU membership breaches

The ROC has resolved to seek penalties against the AWU in the Federal Court, after an 18-month investigation concluded it had committed 27,000 breaches over nine years of obligations to keep accurate membership records and "significantly overstated" the real numbers.


Corrective training fails to save organiser's permit

A CFMMEU organiser who engaged in threatening and coercive conduct, including stopping a concrete pour, has failed to convince the FWC to renew his entry permit, despite presenting evidence that he had recently completed training on the error of his ways.

FWO prosecutes sandstone university over treatment of casuals

The Fair Work Ombudsman has initiated legal action against the University of Melbourne, alleging it coerced and took adverse action against two casual academics to stop them claiming payment for work they performed.

Unions consulted first on ABCC demolition plans, papers reveal

The Albanese Government consulted with unions on its plan to abolish the ABCC before it held meetings with state and territory IR Ministers and the National Workplace Relations Consultative Council, according to information tabled in the Federal Parliament.

"Kingmaker" Pocock content to be "peacebroker"

Key independent Senator David Pocock says he laughed when recently described as a kingmaker, preferring the role of "peacebroker in the 47th Parliament", ahead of the upper house today considering an Opposition bid to strike down the regulation that guts the ABCC's powers.

We'll shut down if we lose funding: ABCC chief

ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney says the construction watchdog will close if it is defunded, even if the Albanese Labor Government fails to win Senate support for legislation to abolish it.

Change strips McBurney's powers, hands them to Burke

The revised national construction code, which applies from today, takes away the power to grant exemptions and exclusion sanctions from ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney and invests them in Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.

Burke guns for ABCC over MBA liaison

The ABCC says it is looking forward to providing further details of its pre-election meetings with the MBA, in response to a request by IR Minister Tony Burke, after a FOI request revealed discussions about anti-CFMMEU television commercials that urged Labor to retain the building watchdog.