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<strong>Exclusive</strong>: Whistleblower says pressure to meet deadlines has led to a culture of trying to avoid delay at all costs, including those caused by safety concerns
Spirits are high at the Knauf factory picket line as members of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union campaign for a decent enterprise agreement. Chris Slee reports.
Jim Chalmers’ remarks represent an intensification of the Labor government’s offensive, backed by the trade unions, to force working-class households to bear the burden of an escalating cost of living and COVID-19 crisis.
The company’s 750 directly employed workers and thousands of contractors were kept in the dark about the collapse until the last minute.
Australian governments rush to accelerate reopening “roadmap” despite Delta outbreaks spreading Just days after the Australian “National Cabinet” announced a premature “roadmap” to end COVID-19 lockdowns, government leaders are laying out plans to further speed up the lifting of safety restrictions, even as outbreaks of the highly dangerous Delta variant continue to run out of control, threatening the populations of Sydney and Brisbane. The push is being spearheaded by New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian, despite her Liberal-National Coalition state government being d...