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CFMEU and Maitland fail in Murdoch defamation case

The CFMEU and its national secretary, John Maitland, have failed to establish they were defamed in a 2001 Daily Telegraph article by columnist Piers Akerman that, according to the union, implied they had condoned the "violent, destructive attacks" and standover tactics used in the alleged "raid" on Johnson Tiles.

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