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Hundreds of train drivers at BHP’s lucrative iron ore operations will kick off the sector’s first industrial action in decades this week as workers revolt against “unpredictable” working conditions.

The ACTU has decided to support the CFMEU ban and take steps to end the use of engineered stone by mid 2024 if government bans are not already in place. Jim McIlroy reports.

Leaked extracts from Safe Work Australia’s investigation into engineered stone recommend a complete ban.

Builders are calling on the workplace umpire to intervene over the CFMEU’s demands that members who attend a union rally about silica dust be paid.

Victorians deserve better than to be governed by a ruthless political machine in partnership with a renegade union at great cost to the state’s public finances.

The new Victorian premier oversaw what was a huge power grab by the CFMEU when she was infrastructure minister but her allegiance to the militant union may not be a natural fit.

Average pay rises in new collective agreements have soared to a high of 4.7 per cent, putting pressure on wage forecasts.

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