7 years ago
Another day, another $300,000 fine for the CFMEU
Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash
Following the Federal Court’s decision to impose yet another massive fine on the CFMEU for breaking the law, the question has to be asked of Bill Shorten: which of the following Federal Court judges do you disagree with?
“The CFMEU’s record of non-compliance with legislation of this kind has now become notorious. That record ought to be an embarrassment to the trade union movement.”
Justice Jessup, July 2016
“The CFMEU has an egregious record of repeated and wilful contraventions of all manner of industrial laws.”
Judge Jarrett, July 2016
“The CMFEU’s compliance with industrial legislation has generally been poor… (The union’s prior history) bespeaks an attitude by the CFMEU of ignoring, if not defying, the law and a willingness to contravene it as and when it chooses.”
Justice White, April 2016
“It would be apt to describe the behaviour of the First Respondent as ‘sheer thuggery’. Such thuggery has no place in the Australian workplace. Contraventions of the FW Act that involve such thuggery cannot be tolerated.”
Judge Vasta, March 2016
“It is apparent from the evidence that neither the CFMEU as an organisation, nor the controlling minds within its executive, appear to care at all whether conduct they plan against employers for industrial purposes is unlawful. What is notable is not only the sheer number of contraventions, but the frequency of them.”
Justice Mortimer, May 2016
And today in the Federal Court in Brisbane;
“As for the position of the CFMEU itself, the Commissioner tendered schedules of prior cases involving the CFMEU that on any view reveal a lamentable, if not disgraceful, record of deliberately flouting industrial laws.”
Justices Dowsett, Greenwood and Wigney, August 2017
What will it take for the Labor Party to stop accepting millions of dollars in donations from this corrupt and lawless union?