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Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union

@CFMEU

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Authorised by Z Smith, Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, 540 Elizabeth St Melbourne VIC.

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Joined March 2012
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@CFMEU
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What bosses have to say about a plan to lift wages: ❗️ "extreme" - Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO, $10.9m salary ❗️ "industrial mayhem" - Mike Kane, Boral CEO, $4.9m salary ❗️ "we don't need new rules" - Chris Sutherland, Programmed CEO, $1.5m salary Righto.
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Yep trickle down economics, the facts #tax #auspol #insiders
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Everytime Scott Morrison mentions "pensioners" we are legally obliged to remind you how many times he voted to cut the pension: Scott Morrison voted to cut the pension seven times. #peoplesforum #auspol
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💰Subway stole wages. 💰Bunnings stole wages. 💰Sunglass Hut stole wages. 💰Dominos stole wages. 💰7 - Eleven stole wages. 💰Michael Hill stole wages. 💰George Calombaris stole wages. 💰Rebel Sport stole wages. The Liberals are making paying wages optional.
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You love your country so much you send your money to the #caymanislands #tax #fizza #AustralianValues
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For all those 300,000 pensioners who had their pension slashed u will be glad to know that Gov ministers are doing it tough too #pensioncuts
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What we said over 2 years ago inflamable cladding, dodgy steel and glass products, asbestos and the Gov is asleep at the wheel #4Corners
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Scott Morrison's Chrismas Island photo op stunt cost us $2000 per minute. Share if you think he should pick up the bill.
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Scott Morrison and his CEO mates might not know what it feels like to get churned through labour-hire gigs, but for many working people it is reality. It's why we need to change the Government and #ChangeTheRules
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Michaelia Cash has to explain why she covered-up for Nigel Hadgkiss for nearly a year.
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Yep the Liberal Party has apologised to our union #Enjoy #auspol #losers
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@CFMEU
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Trickle down economics doesn't work - but failed ideology is Kelly O'Dwyer's only plan for lifting wages.
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Malcolm Turnbull made millions from a company linked to the Panama Papers - #AusVotes
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BREAKING: Michaelia Cash has refused to face Senate Estimates to explain her role in the scandal that lead to ABCC head Nigel Hadgkiss' resignation... #auspol
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When Mr. Turnbull is done waffling on #QandA , here are some real tradies for him...
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We're with @sallymcmanus - if you want better pay and conditions, join your union and help us #ChangeTheRules
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Scott Morrison is only planning to show up to Parliament to work for 10 days in the next 8 months. Imagine if we did that.
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Switzerland is landlocked, but they have still more ships than Australia. #SaveAustralianShipping @MaritimeUnionAU
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BREAKING: Prosecutors are now considering whether to lay charges over the leaks to the media from jobs minister Michaelia Cash's office about the raids on the Australian Workers' Union.
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BREAKING: A win for members, a win for working people. Big business tried to stop our amalgamation. They tried to demand the right to have a say in how workers choose to organise themselves. This morning they failed. We stand united.
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"If my brothers were on a building site, I'd like it to be a CFMEU building site." Sally McManus ACTU Secretary #imwithsally #npc #auspol
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There is ONE pension that the Libs aren't attacking #auspol
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The Turnbull Libs have chosen bank profits over pensions. Put them last. #AusVotes
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The #ABCC will put lives at risk. Help us fight back!
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Hmmm.... "The move also calls into question the credibility of the royal commission, called by then prime minister Tony Abbott in 2014."
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BREAKING: The Fair Work Commission has approved our amalgamation with the MUA and TCFUA.
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If he lies about war medals, #Longman can't trust him with their votes. #auspol
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Counterpoint: do.
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Our #RealTradies have been seen by more than 2 and a half million people! Watch it here:
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Industry super funds cost less and perform better. Don't let the Libs give control of your money to the banks #auspol
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When we stood up against #ChAFTA , the Libs accused us of running a fear campaign... #AusVotes
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Malcolm Turnbull can not ignore the problem any longer. We need a national corruption watchdog.
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Skilled, passionate Australian seafarers have been sacked by BHP. Why? Because the Morrison Government is letting them use exploited foreign workers instead. We need to #ChangeTheRules
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We did it! Federal, state and territory WHS Ministers just voted to ban engineered stone from 1 July 2024. This has happened because our union turned out. We set a date to ban it on our sites, rallied, and campaigned to the public outside big retail stores. #StopThisKillerStone
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The Eureka Flag represents our struggle. We stand united beneath it. #auspol
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Spot on! Why are we getting a #pensioncut when big business still aren't paying their share of tax #auspol
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If Malcolm Turnbull gets his way, working people will have less rights than ice dealers
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With wages stuck, and the cost of living going up, our Government is focused on banning flags on construction sites #auspol #QT
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There must be an election coming up, because Scott Morrison is pretending to care about workers. Remember his record - Change the Government, #ChangeTheRules . #AusPol #AusVotes2019
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We're proud to support #FairGoFairfax . Stand up and fight back!
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Streets want to cut the wages of the people who make their products. Spread the word! @unionsaustralia @theamwu
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700,000 low-paid Australian workers are footing the bill for Malcolm's big business tax cut #QT #auspol
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The Liberal Party hasn't shown up for work. It's time they got the sack.
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When many companies aren't paying any tax at all, why would a Government choose to LOWER their tax rate? #Budget2016
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Embarrassingly for Malcolm Turnbull, his slogan has been reviewed by the experts... #AusVotes
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The behaviour of the AFP in recent years needs to be investigated #insiders #auspol
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Breaking: A Federal Labor Government will BAN the import of flammable cladding #auspol
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You made it illegal for our union to insist on Australian made clothing and boots by voting for #abcc You're a joke #insiders #auspol
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Rossi Boots' Neville Hayward in Parliament today with me looking for answers over Defence's shunning of Aussie made http://t.co/cY7rlek354
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Happy Labour Day, brought to you by union members.
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The community will vote to protect decent wages and conditions for working families #auspol #insiders
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The attack on Bill Shorten about his mum was organised by the Libs. #MyMum
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In support of the #BattleOfTheBrewery , this pub has turned OFF its Carlton taps!
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They are COMPLETELY out of touch #auspol
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Did not respond well to the amalgamation news #ausunions #mua #tcfua #CFMEU #auspol
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Congratulations @gedkearney , the NEW Labor MP for Batman #auspol #BatmanVotes
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Workers need safety and dignity, not the ABCC. #Insiders
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We need to stamp out the lawlessness inside the Liberal Party #auspol
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A reminder that we STILL don't have the report into Sussan Ley's travel rort. #auspol
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Batman - give your vote to someone who's stood up for workers for decades #auspol #BatmanVotes
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The #ABCC is about stopping decent wages & condition & will undermine safety on site. It's that simple #auspol #workchoices
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The Liberals continue to look after big business, rather than working people #auspol
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Malcolm Turnbull is refusing to release the report into Sussan Ley's spending #auspol
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Yep he knew then and said nothing and did nothing #60minutes #auspol #Fizza
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A great win by our @CFMEU_ME division in the Federal Court #union
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Several families are still struggling after Bob Day's company ripped them off. #auspol
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We need to stamp out the lawlessness in the Liberal Party #QT #auspol
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What a legend! Bob Katter won't stand for any union bashing. #AusWaits
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Labor says use of lockouts and labour hire to undercut wages 'won't be tolerated' #auspol
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Peabody paid more in donations to the Liberal Party than they did in tax. What more can we say?
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The victim's of BHP's greed are Aussie families. Scott Morrison could have saved these jobs, but he chose to issue the licenses and visas that allowed BHP to replace local seafarers with exploited overseas visa workers. #ThinkBig
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#BREAKING CFMEU members pledge support for First Nations “Voice to Parliament” following Turnbull Gov rejection
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BREAKING: Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash are attempting to change the law to stop our amalgamation. They should respect our members. They should respect the independent umpire. They should not have a say in how union members organise.
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Malcolm's PaTH program will lead to exploitation. It's a disgrace. RT if you agree.
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He's happy to criticise a 5% pay rise for workers, yet Malcolm is silent about his fat cat mates...
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ICYMI @TurnbullMalcolm botches @abc730 interview & destroys his own case to keep negative gearing #auspol #fairness
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How #ChAFTA is being used to smash our labour market Exploited Chinese visa workers as we warned #auspol
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#wagetheft rife through every sector of our economy need restore the right of unions to check the wages of non union workplaces #auspol
@MikeCarlton01
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Now it's Bakers Delight screwing young kids. No more bread from them, then.
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Class envy When super rich & big end of town just can't stand blue collar workers getting ahead #insiders #auspol
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Aussie jobs have been trashed at CUB. Share this ad (banned by the Herald Sun) and help the unions fight back!
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The new Liberal Party backbench...for now. #LibSpill
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Yep one rule for the elite,one rule for the rest of us #tax #penaltyrates #auspol #fizza
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Malcolm Turnbull voted more than 20 times to stop the #BankingRC
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Disgraceful. Working people pay more tax than massive companies #auspol
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Derryn Hinch is supposed to be the voice of the people, but he votes with the Liberals and big business #auspol
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Westpac broke money laundering laws 23 million times and will pay a tiny $43 fine per breach. We demanded a women's toilet and copped a $50,000 fine. Maybe we should do a rebrand...
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Michaelia Cash today said that Holden's closure was particularly sad for her family because they owned Commodores... #auspol
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He still can't believe unions response to his Government's attacks on workers is to stand up & fight back #insiders #auspol #proudtobeunion
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Nick Xenophon campaigned on local jobs, but when it came time to vote he abandoned local workers #auspol
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Barnaby's imploding, and Michaelia Cash has gone missing. Malcolm Turnbull is presiding over a rapidly collapsing Government #auspol
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All working people in Australia deserve answers from Senator Cash. The Hadgkiss scandal will not go away! #auspol
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Standing ovation for @sallymcmanus at our National Conference #NatConf2018 #ChangeTheRules
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