LABOR UNIONS – AUSTRALIA – REGULATION

Boycott safeguards ‘inadequate’: Boral

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Original article by Annabel Hepworth
The Australian – Page: 21 : 26-Nov-14

The draft report of Ian Harper from his review of competition law for the Australian Government does not recommend changes to secondary boycott provisions. These had been called for in the submission of building materials group Boral, which also told the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance & Corruption that the current legislation was insufficient to deal with the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union. The latter is now the target of Federal Court proceedings launched by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

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BORAL LIMITED – ASX BLD, CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY, MINING AND ENERGY UNION OF AUSTRALIA, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, AUSTRALIA. ROYAL COMMISSION INTO TRADE UNION GOVERNANCE AND CORRUPTION

‘Corrupt culture’ in super fund

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Original article by Joanna Mather, Sally Patten
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 6 : 3-Nov-14

Jeremy Stoljar SC, counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance & Corruption, has criticised the Cbus industry superannuation fund. He argued that evidence of members’ details being leaked to the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union showed an overly close relationship and a "cultural failure". Industry Super Australia CEO David Whiteley rejects any suggestion the leak is symptomatic of practices in the sector generally. Stoljar also recommended criminal charges against some building union officials over an unlawful secondary boycott

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CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING UNIONS’ SUPERANNUATION FUND, CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY, MINING AND ENERGY UNION OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. ROYAL COMMISSION INTO TRADE UNION GOVERNANCE AND CORRUPTION, BORAL LIMITED – ASX BLD, LIS-CON HOLDINGS PTY LTD, INDUSTRY SUPER AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT, HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA