Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union members to protest administration in capital city rallies on Tuesday
Former construction union official John Setka has said he thought the CFMEU would be ‘left alone’ by the federal government if he quit.Former construction union official John Setka has said he thought the CFMEU would be ‘left alone’ by the federal government if he quit.Labor has emphatically rejected claims by former construction union official John Setka that the Albanese government agreed to let him stand down in return for not putting his union into administration.
Setka claimed to have made an offer to the CFMEU’s national secretary, Zach Smith, who was allegedly in talks with then workplace relations minister, Tony Burke, and “I assume Sally McManus”. Setka also claimed that he had once leftOn Monday, Michaelia Cash, the shadow workplace relations minister, said any alleged deal needed to be investigated and was “highly alarming”.
“At that point in time, I know that Tony Burke as the minister was considering all options, from administration to deregistration of the union, while he took advice from his department,” Watt said. “That’s business as usual from the CFMEU,” he said, noting that Setka had also unsuccessfully challenged his expulsion from Labor.A spokesperson for the CFMEU administrator warned ahead of Tuesday’s protests that while people have a democratic right to peaceful protest “the taking of unprotected industrial action is not lawful”.Smith has chastised the government for going over the top of the union to appoint an external administrator, saying it stripped members of their right to due process.
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