A week after Labor wins Victoria, the CFMEU shuts down a project

[nero_bolt]

Its all coming true as predicted in the lead up to the Victorian State election -- The CFMEU are at again -- not less than a week after their parrot - puppet is elected as Premier of Victoria ,here they are destroying and strong arming employers who are trying to grow their business

Here we go already. The CFMEU celebrates Labor’s win in Victoria by deciding which businesses may operate:

THE CFMEU shut down an Aldi supermarket construction site, the militant union flexing its muscle just a week after Labor won power in Victoria.

The Herald Sun saw CFMEU representatives block the site at Millers Rd, Altona, refusing access to trucks carrying building materials.

CFMEU representatives allegedly told subcontractors: “There’ll be no work here today."…

The Herald Sun has been told the construction company does not have a union-endorsed enterprise bargaining agreement.

It also understands the CFMEU has taken issue with Aldi’s use of overseas contractors. Building industry sources said the union has had a long-running battle with Aldi over its use of international experts, which are brought in to oversee the German company’s specific method of laying its concrete floors to provide extra strength.

And so the CFMEU takes it on itself to tell other people they may not work.

The supplier said he was “shattered” to see his union hurt his business.

“It’s just frustrating and expensive,” he said.

“I’m paying my blokes to be doing nothing out there. And the builder holds our payment because we’re not performing to contract.”

Is this Victoria under Daniel Andrews? YES more to come 

[boris1gary]

this is "fair" according to the LNP and their backers

[alexander*beetle]

Well said Hawke. The figures for the support industries are never released when manufacturing shuts down. And to see Hockey blatantly admit that he was responsible for getting rid of the car industry in Australia was just breath taking.

To think that a government would gloat not only about closing down a whole industry but to also gloat of the job losses is beyond reproach. Some of those people will be under 30 and if there is no work for them they will have no access to unemployment benefits for 6 months. It just doesn't bear thinking about. 

And in a years time people will be bellowing about dole bludgers in the area and being 'leaners' without understanding that 6 months without income will set them back years. Especially those with young families. 

[boris1gary]

these are the real bludgers & leaners

[fourandsixpants]

I cannot bring myself to comment about manufacturing closures in Australia as I don't want to be banished from the boards.

OKAY! ............F-o-s-s-i-l politicians.

best I can do. 

[the_hawk*]

[fourandsixpants]

In October, it was revealed by a Fair Work Ombudsman that more than an estimated 20,000 workers on the skilled 457 visa had gone missing.

The audit assessed 1807 skilled workers on 457 visas and found 338 – or about 20 per cent – were no longer employed by their sponsor.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/indian-citizens-head-immigration-queue-for-aus...

[icyfroth]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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Premier John Setka is rubbing his hands together at Treasury Place. His lapdog Deputy Premier Dan Andrews has done well.

Unions.... Wonder how the soon to be unemployed Toyota workers feel about their union...... 

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More than likely about the same as GMH workers feel about the Abott circus letting manufacturing down in this country along with the farmers that have been sold out by him.

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Successive Aus governments have been letting manufacturers in this country down for decades. Now all we have to keep us afloat is letting foreign raiders loot our natural resources.

[the_hawk*]

no they have sold us out Icy

[myoclon1cjerk]

Anybody have any idea how many workers died on the Rialto Towers site back in the 80's. That was another Grocon (Grollo) project.I can't seem to find any info on it.I wonder if they had anything to do with the White Sea-Baltic canal project 🙂

[icyfroth]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

no they have sold us out Icy

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yes they've sold us out Icy, you mean.

It's been going on for  a long time. It was Keating that started privatising Australian institutions, starting with the banks. Hawke that stopped protecting our industries.

Successive governments have simply continued in that vein. Now all that's left that the current government can sell off is our natural resources.

Sell everything, never mind the people who live there. We can import everything from overseas, including people.

They can do that because the Aus public just keep voting them in. LNP or ALP makes no difference. It's the global players that run this country and it's politicians. They'd never tolerate any political party that tried to stop them.