Senator Roberts says documents tabled at Senate Estimates reveal a dirty deal between a labour hire company and the CFMEU to strip worker entitlements, with the union promising to stay silent on the issue.
In exchange for employer Chandler Macleod narrowing the application of a new dodgy Enterprise Agreement that paid miners far less, the letter from Chandler MacLeod to the CFMEU Northern Mining and NSW Energy District proposed the union:
“cease from any current and future actions … directed towards ventilating and agitating its view that employees currently engaged by Chandler Macleod … may be entitled to “leave and other entitlements” … or that Chandler Macleod is not paying employees their “lawful terms and conditions””.
The proposed Enterprise Agreement was subsequently registered despite no casual employees voting on the matter. Under the new agreement, permanent positions on full rates of pay were transferred to casual employment.
These casual employees were then paid less than full time equivalents and lost all of their leave entitlements such as sick pay, access to special injury pay for miners and annual leave.
Despite the lower rates of pay and loss of entitlements, the agreement was signed off by the Fair Work Commission as passing the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT).
Senator Roberts asked the Commission today at Senate Estimates if they had been misled in the statutory declarations provided by Chandler MacLeod and CFMEU bosses, which were used to support the approval. The Commission was unable to answer.
Senator Roberts said “There has been fraud in the Hunter Valley between the local CFMEU division and labour hire company Chandler MacLeod.”
“The letter I have tabled in Senate Estimates today shows a dodgy deal done by union bosses who are meant to represent workers where they specifically agreed to never argue that these exploited workers have been ripped off.”
“Clearly, the Fair Work Commission is ill-equipped to assess Enterprise Agreements. This case shows union negotiated Enterprise Agreements can leave workers much worse off.”
When i was working on Barrow Island, my accountant queried the small amount of Superannuation i was paid for the year’s work. Despite working a Mandatory 10 hr day, 7 days a week (with half a day off every second Sunday, bringing it to a 65 hour week) we were only paid Super on 38 hours/week (couldn’t even make it the standard 40 hours) and the “law” saying that we should be paid for every hour worked, it was in “The Agreement” and saved the Company thousands (if not millions) When i rang the Perth CFMEU office, i was told that it was “the best agreement in Australia”- after several pointed epithets i told him i’d hate to see the worst one and i hung up. There were several other little ways we were being ripped off but that one was the elephant in the room.
Remember how the union sold out its members in Melbourne during the pandemic lockdowns & their union boss picked up (allegedly) $2 million bucks for his treachery? Slimy John Slickass or Sitka or kissarse or something
tonyryan43 – ” As some CN readers also read my posts on substack oziz4oziz”
Have read your main article on oziz4oziz “again” today, it should be mandatory reading for any Australian who has not been too far (irretrievably) brainwashed and indoctrinated by the MSM.
Massive amount of research to put all that info together into one well written article.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Good morning .
Yes, well this does not surprise me one bit. I’ve worked Labour Hire for years as a HD Fitter and they are scum along with these unions ripping people off. Where were the unions when all the mandates were being forced upon the workers and those workers were losing their jobs, nowhere to be seen but they still took the dues from their members. Bloody Scumbags. Fair Work is just another useless government department.
Regards.
Graham O’KEEFFE
Thanks Ed.
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Many thanks Ed.
I will send your comment to boffins Tony is beyond us mortals. Ed
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A subtle undercurrent to this article is the impotence and uselessness of the Fair Work Commission.
One might have said “all bark, no bite”, but even that fall short of the reality.
The Fair Work Commission has neither bark nor bite, being akin to a toothless old arthritic dog that prefers to remain in its dog-house fast asleep.
The message to Australians is – NONE of the institutions that are supposed to protect our interests have either the capacity or the intent to do so.
NONE of them serve our interests.
ALL of them have been subverted and hijacked. ALL of them serve OTHER masters.
Never can anyone trust the CFMEU – have a look a what they did to Australians during WW2 and the Vietman issues.,
The only people the CFMEU and their bosses look after are themselves – never anybody else.