Change Branch
Lend Lease coughs up entitlements for workers ripped off on Bendigo Hospital job
Lend Lease has finalised an agreement with the CFMEU to pay approximately 65 workers who had been ripped off on the $630 million Bendigo Hospital development. A large proportion of the workers were of Chinese descent and been working for a subcontractor on the Lend...
Defeat of ABCC bill a win for basic human rights and freedoms
The CFMEU today welcomed the defeat of the ABCC bill in the Senate as a win for workers’ and basic human rights and freedoms. “The Turnbull Government has lied to the Australian people in their attempts to pass this bill. These laws take away important rights such as...
CFMEU rocked by Herald Sun publication of accurate article
The CFMEU today was collectively rocked by the publication of the first accurate article the Herald Sun has printed in many years. The publication of the adjudication by the Australian Press Council on the Herald Sun website notes that the article written by Rupert...
Lend Lease workers rally for unpaid wages
At 10:30 today, CFMEU Construction Branch State Secretary John Setka and Bendigo MP, Lisa Chesters addressed construction workers who rallied in support of the mostly ethnically-Chinese workers from Lend Lease’s Bendigo Hospital development. John Setka and Lisa...