The Queensland Teachers' Union's federal entity has entered an enforceable undertaking with the FWC after failing to conduct elections for its branch council and executive, despite numerous prompts from the regulator.
At an extraordinary special general meeting today, Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association members have overwhelmingly voted against a planned amalgamation with HACSU, but it might not be enough to stop the merger.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has called for major construction companies to start playing their part in stamping out corruption in the industry, while the Wood inquiry will this week hear evidence from leaders of the AWU's Queensland branch and the Queensland Council of Unions.
Former CFMEU construction and general division Queensland branch leaders Michael Ravbar and Jade Ingham directed membership payments to the state-registered union rather than the federally-registered entity, leaving members without voting power, in a move that might have been intended to "create an impregnable fiefdom into which the national organisation could not reach", administrator Mark Irving KC said today.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU's activities in Queensland will put construction division administrator Mark Irving KC on the stand in a hearing this week.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is removing the former Labor administration's best practice pay and conditions procurement guidelines for new State-funded construction projects, following the release of a State productivity commission report, while the Wood inquiry has appointed new counsel assisting, ahead of its first substantive hearings.
Health union VAHPA is holding a special general meeting to discuss its proposed merger with HACSU, according to a rank and file group concerned about an alleged failure to consult members.
A Victoria Police special taskforce has charged former CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka for allegedly sending threatening emails to the CFMEU's administrator, while an ACCC probe has prompted John Holland to ditch deals that limit its choice of labour hire providers.
The FWC is considering legal action against former senior officers of the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch after finding they diverted more than $300,000 in member's funds to re-elect now-ousted HSU leader Diana Asmar.
