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‘We own Fair Work’: Cairns companies recount decade of CFMEU intimidation

The Sydney Morning Herald·Cameron Atfield·18 days ago
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A Cairns small business owner was told the CFMEU “owned” Fair Work after a confrontation in his office, the Commission of Inquiry into the union’s conduct was told on Friday. As the commission concluded its Cairns hearings, it heard evidence of intimidation and suspected sabotage by the union at the $176 million Cairns Convention Centre project, which was completed in 2023. Status Signs director Rhys Carmady giving evidence at the Commission of Inquiry in Cairns on Friday. Commission of Inquiry live stream But Commissioner Stuart Wood heard the pattern of behaviour in Far North Queensland started more than a decade earlier. Status Signs director Rhys Carmady told the inquiry CFMEU delegates attended his work premises in 2010, after complaints of underpayment by two of his staff. Carmady described how two “big burly guys” came to speak to him, at the request of the two members, at which point they came in “quite aggressive”.…

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