Cbus Super has told the Heydon Royal Commission that it dismissed the employee who lied about providing confidential membership information to the CFMEU, while the inquiry has confirmed that a taskforce into links between unions and organised crime is in the "early stage of the planning process".
Sydney business identity Jim Byrnes has rejected assertions that he was using the Heydon Royal Commission as platform to "destroy" labour hire operator George Alex to avoid paying debt outstanding from a commercial dispute.
A Cbus Super employee has been forced to admit lying to the Heydon Royal Commission about passing on confidential membership information to CFMEU NSW branch secretary Brian Parker, after the inquiry produced phone and taxi records that directly contradicted her evidence.
Senator George Brandis has today announced that the Heydon inquiry will be given until the end of 2015 to produce its report, after the royal commissioner told the attorney-general that some union officials appeared to regard their organisations as immune from "any social or community standard shared by other Australians".
The MUA is using its industrial muscle to extract up to $1 million from employers for training funds that the Heydon Royal Commission acknowledges are legitimate, the inquiry heard today.
Victorian police have won access to about 290 documents held by law firm Slater & Gordon that relate to an alleged slush fund run by former AWU official Bruce Wilson in 1992.
A former CFMEU construction and general division organiser has told the Heydon Royal Commission this afternoon that one of the inquiry's witnesses pulled a gun on him when he entered a construction site to complain about safety standards.
