CFMEU

Construction workers have taken to the streets of some of Australia's biggest cities to demand a payrise and special rules to stop building companies from ...

Outside of Melbourne's Trades Hall, there was a powerful moment as a group of tradies gathered to perform a haka. A nationwide protest from the construction union, the CFMEU, has led to thousands of construction workers taking to the streets across Australia's biggest cities Meanwhile in Brisbane the glass door at the entrance of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices was smashed during the protest through the city. While the protests have been mostly peaceful, in Brisbane furious workers smashed the glass door at the entrance of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices. Construction workers have taken to the streets of some of Australia's biggest cities to demand a payrise and special rules to stop building companies from going under. Wild scenes as construction workers flood city streets around Australia to protest the collapse of building companies and demanding a pay rise - and perform a powerful haka

Thousands of tradies have put down their tools to protest wage increases in line with inflation on Wednesday morning in capital cities across Australia.

Workers in CFMEU shirts were seen kicking around glass and writing profanities on the window of a CBD building. The CFMEU coordinated workers in fluro yellow and orange to march the streets of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, mere days after builder Porter Davis shockingly entered liquidation. A door has been smashed and thousands of tradies have abandoned their tools to march through cities across Australia in protest of wage theft and higher salaries.

A door at the Fair Work Ombudsman office in the Brisbane CBD has been smashed after a rally turned violent today.

“He did actually offer to repair the door as an apology, he really didn’t want the vandalism to take away from the key messaging.” “He said it did sort of take away from the rally and the importance of them getting their message across. “I spoke to Michael Ravbar, the secretary of the CFMEU, he’s disappointed that the door was smashed,” Jacob said.

The workers walked off the job on Wednesday morning, just days after the collapse of a major building company left tradies out of pocket.

That leaves workers and subcontractors carrying the can when corporate insolvencies bite,” Smith said. “If governments won’t ban the asbestos of the 2020s, the CFMEU will.” He said “in the midst of the most serious cost-of-living crisis in decades” it was time to challenge the “broken economic paradigm that calls for wage restraint”. “Either the Fair Work Ombudsman doesn’t care or doesn’t have the power to act. “We need to scrap the Fair Work Ombudsman and start again.” “The Fair Work Ombudsman has been a dismal failure on wage theft, sham contracting and corporate insolvencies - three of the biggest issues in the construction industry,” he said.