Change to be forced on 'violent, misogynist' CFMEU

Australian Community Media

Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie says people knew of the "systemic horror" within the CFMEU for many years and Labor drove "the getaway car" after bullying.

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00:00Well, yesterday I was briefed by the CFMEU Administrator on the Watson report.

00:05And I've got to say, the findings in the Watson report are shocking

00:08and reveal the systemic horror that many of us knew existed in the CFMEU for many, many years.

00:15While the CFMEU were out there bullying, physically intimidating and threatening women and children,

00:23the Labour Party were driving the getaway car for the CFMEU.

00:26The Labour Party in Queensland enabled the CFMEU and its violence, intimidation, fears, threats and misogyny for over 10 years.

00:38And it was clear since 2015, when the Labour Party was elected,

00:42they changed the industrial relation laws and put the CFMEU back in charge since 2015.

00:49The report talks about how the fear, intimidation, the business model of the CFMEU,

00:54is embedded in EB agreements, a female public servant locked in a room.

01:01A daughter of a workplace health and safety inspector, intimidated and bullied at a gymnasium.

01:07Workplace health and safety inspectors were chased by CFMEU officials with an angle grinder in use.

01:15This is the behaviour of the CFMEU and Labour let it happen for 10 years.

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