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CFMEU cops near-record $1.2m fine – The Australian Financial Review
The construction union was penalised for threatening a crane company that fired an employee it thought was a union spy.
Union assistant secretary Michael Greenfield threatened action against the company if it did not rehire the worker, an act that was menacing, calculated and shameful, the judge said.
None of the contraveners expressed any contrition, let alone a recognition of the need not to repeat the contravening conduct, Justice Rares said in the judgment.
The union, with its history of contraventions, is not prepared to acknowledge to the court or the community that what it did on 25 January 2019 was inexcusable…
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