Hundreds of civil construction workers have walked off the Cross River Rail project in protest against the contractor’s blatant disregard for the health and safety of its workforce.
The CFMEU C&G Division QLD/NT Branch believes that at this stage it is not in the interest of the industry and its workforce for sites to be to be closed down partially or fully due to Covid-19, although we must all maintain public and private health standards for everyone in the community.
A concreting subsidiary company of construction giant Boral, De Martin and Gasparini, has been ordered to pay a $30,000 fine to the CFMEU for breaching the Fair Work Act last year.
Scott Morrison’s attack on the CFMEU today is an obvious attempt to distract from the chaos and division of his own Government, the CFMEU National Construction Secretary Dave Noo