CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY – VICTORIA

Dozens more charged over alleged bribes-for-registration scheme

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Original article by Lachlan Johnston
The Age – Page: Online : 24-Jan-25

Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission announced on Thursday that it had charged another 28 people as part of its investigation into allegations that employees at the Victorian Building Authority took bribes to register builders. IBAC stated that the 28 people charged are on top of six people that were charged in 2024 as part of Operation Perseus, with two of the six people charged then being VBA staff. The Victorian government in March 2024 removed the board of the VBA and made CEO Anna Cronin its sole commissioner, with the VBA’s operations having been under scrutiny since the 2022 suicide of building inspector Rob Karkut

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VICTORIA. INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION, VICTORIAN BUILDING AUTHORITY

Rampaging thugs unleash destructive anarchy on Melbourne

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Original article by John Ferguson, Angelica Snowden, Remy Varga
The Australian – Page: 1 & 4 : 22-Sep-21

Sixty-two people were arrested during violent protests in Melbourne on 21 September, in response to the Victorian government’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for construction workers and a two-week shutdown of the sector. An estimated 2,000 people participated in the protest, including construction workers, tradespeople and unionists, while there have been claims that the demonstration had been infiltrated by far-right activists and anti-vaxxers. Further protests are expected in coming days. Meanwhile, the state government has revised downward the number of COVID-19 cases linked to the construction sector since early August from 403 to just 337. This includes 239 cases that are linked to construction sites in metropolitan Melbourne.

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CFMEU’s 18 per cent pay grab

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Original article by Ewin Hannan, Patrick Hatch
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 2 : 26-May-16

Victorian members of the militant Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union have approved a new enterprise agreement for construction workers. It includes an annual wage rise of five per cent for the next three years and a three per cent pay rise the following year. John Setka, the state secretary of the CFMEU’s building division, said members should lock in the pay deal in case the Coalition wins the federal election and makes another attempt to reinstate the Australian Building & Construction Commission.

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CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY, MINING AND ENERGY UNION OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION, THE MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA, DELOITTE ACCESS ECONOMICS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, BROOKFIELD MULTIPLEX LIMITED, PROBUILD PTY LTD, HICKORY GROUP PTY LTD, LU SIMON PTY LTD, BUILT PTY LTD

Master Builders slams pay deal with CFMEU

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Original article by Ewin Hannan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 19-May-16

Employees of some building industry contractors in Victoria will receive an annual pay rise of five per cent after securing a deal with the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union. Master Builders has expressed concern about the above-inflation wage rise and signalled that it is unlikely to endorse the deal. Some industry players have suggested that the contractors agreed to the deal as they feared facing even more demands from the CFMEU if the Australian Labor Party wins the federal election.

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CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY, MINING AND ENERGY UNION OF AUSTRALIA, THE MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA, MASTER BUILDERS AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED, AUSTANNERS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, FAIR WORK BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA