I almost lost my breakfast reading this:
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/brib...ng-industry-20140127-31j0a.html#ixzz2rdR3iT4B
You can see why union staffed contracts run at 30% more cost than non-union sites....
Officials from Australia?s powerful building unions are being bribed by corrupt companies that need their support to win multimillion-dollar contracts.
The construction industry rackets involve labour hire, traffic management, scaffolding, crane and building companies, several of which are connected to bikies and organised crime figures.
An investigation by Fairfax Media and the ABC?s 7.30 program has identified several influential Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union officials, organisers and shop stewards in NSW and Victoria who have been given bribes and other inducements by the companies.
Bribery and dirty deals are rife in the building industry. Here is how it works.
The union figures in return use their influence to ensure the companies get the CFMEU?s backing, including specific enterprise bargaining agreements, to win contracts on parts of big private and government projects, among them Victoria?s desalination plant and Sydney?s Barangaroo development.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/brib...ng-industry-20140127-31j0a.html#ixzz2rdR3iT4B
You can see why union staffed contracts run at 30% more cost than non-union sites....