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The Executive, Officials and staff wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. We hope you enjoy a well earned break.

The CFMEU Office will close office at 12.00pm on Wednesday 24th December and reopens at 8.00am on Wednesday 6th January.

Messages of solidarity with CFMEU Victoria officials John Setka and Shaun Reardon have been flooding in from Australian and Internaitonal Unions.

The CFMEU Victoria Construction and General Worker magazine for Spring 2015 - read below. In this issue:

What are the achievements of the Abbott Government? What policies and programs have they implemented to take Australia forward in handling the many changes and challenges ahead?

A $10,200 fine for going to a march?

Construction company John Holland has just issued this threat to its workers wanting to attend next week’s#March4 National Day Of Action.

(Opinion piece by CFMEU Secretary John Setka, which appeared in Australian Financial Review 20/2/15)

It seems that newspaper editors deem it highly newsworthy every time Boral CEO Mike Kane gets angry because he doesn’t get his way.

The CFMEU was saddened by the loss last year of Adrian 'Skinner' McLoughlin.

An effective organiser through the 1990s and 2000s, Skinner is fondly remembered, particularly for his efforts leading chants at the head of many a union rally.