The Albanese Labor Government should immediately move to deregister the militant and out of control CFMEU following startling revelations the union has been deeply infiltrated by bikies, gangland and underworld criminal figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen revealed by the Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes investigation shows this union has no right to still be operating,\u201d Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBob Hawke was brave enough to deregister the BLF and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister Tony Burke should follow his lead and do the same with the CFMEU,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Albanese Government\u2019s abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission has been an unmitigated disaster – this union is now riddled with bikies and underworld figures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe whole industry now needs to be free of the grip of this union and the only way to do that is deregister them,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe powers exist under the Fair Work Act for deregistration and Minister Burke can clearly make the application \u2013 he should do so immediately,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe ACTU should then work out how the decent law-abiding workers who want to be part of a union could best be represented within the construction industry,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMinister Burke\u2019s past conduct would indicate he will be slow to act against the union that donated $4.3 million to the Labor Party to help them win the last election,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Labor Party should immediately hand back all the money that has been donated to them by the CFMEU in recent years. There is a question over some of that money possibly being the proceeds of crime. There needs to be a full investigation into the money trail,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Coalition maintains its call for the Albanese Government to legislate the Ensuring Integrity Bill of 2019, re-instate the ABCC with increased powers, increase penalties for breaches of the Fair Work Act and tighten the fit and proper person test for right of entry onto construction sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Albanese Labor Government should immediately move to deregister the militant and out of control CFMEU following startling revelations the union has been deeply infiltrated by bikies, gangland and underworld criminal figures. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen revealed by the Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes investigation shows this union has no right to still be operating,\u201d Senator … Continue reading “Albanese should immediately deregister the CFMEU”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28134,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133\/revisions\/28134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}