Campaigns

Gladys Berejiklian wants to tear down historic buildings at Willow Grove and St George's Terraces to make way for her proposed Powerhouse Parramatta museum.

After years of political struggle the Liberals finally managed to pass back into law the Australian Building and Construction Commission, and with it, their Building Code.

Thanks to the the hard work of members, Delegates and Officials of the CFMEU, Site Allowance is back in the paypackets of workers in many sectors. If you work in formwork, steelfixing, painting or bricklaying, you should start receiving a pay rise from 1 July 2015. Some sectors will follow.

The ABCC has even more power than the police. It can drag workers before secret tribunals, strip them of their right to silence and deny them the right to choose a lawyer. If you refuse to attend a tribunal, you can be jailed for up to six months. Under this law, ice dealers will have even more rights than construction workers.

Our members work in the most dangerous industries in the country. Every six minutes a worker suffers a serious injury or dies on the job in the workplaces we cover.

The mining boom has been good for some, but too many of us are being left behind.