CFMEU Vic-Tas in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Trade union

CFMEU Vic-Tas

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9341 3444

Address: 540 Elizabeth St 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: https://vic.cfmeu.org/

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25.01.2022 Merry Xmas from Dave Hawkins and all the crew at Queens Place!

24.01.2022 ! . We welcomed members of the Geelong construction industry including Builders, Uni...ons, Subcontractors and their employees to the foundation where a BIG cheque for over $50,000 was presented to the Barwon Health Foundation Christmas Appeal. We are just blown away by the generosity and thank Geelong’s local building and construction industry the construction unions and their members, builders, sub-contractors, individual workers and businesses who supported the extraordinary fundraising effort that raised an amazing $50,000 for children in hospital this Christmas. We share a snippet of some of the amazing organisations that kindly supported. (Video will play) We really are surrounded by the best in our local community. #BarwonHealthFoundation #BarwonHealth #BarwonHealthFoundationChristmasAppeal #Geelong

24.01.2022 On a scale of 'f*cked' to 'f*cked beyond belief' - how sh*t is this advice on how to organise workers to join their union!? I wonder which union this could have said this?

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Max Pandur for winning $500 in the Dreamstreet Lending Cash Smash. Thank you to Troy Thompson and all the guys on the Roselyn Street, West Melbourne Site. Stay tuned for 2021! Prizes will be drawn on a weekly basis once the industry reopens. Merry Christmas from Dreamstreet.

22.01.2022 The West Gate Bridge Memorial Committee has prepared a special online ceremony to remember those we lost 50 years ago. The live stream will begin at 11.38am this morning, and there will be a moment's silence at 11.50am. It is being live streamed by Victorian Trades Hall Council, and we will be sharing it here. ... You can also access it via http://www.facebook.com/vicunions. #SafetyIsUnionBusiness #50Years

22.01.2022 "It was one of those days you'll never forget your whole life." This Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the West Gate Bridge collapse. Paddy Hanaphy and Pat Preston spoke to the ABC about the horrific events of October 15, 1970.

21.01.2022 Members of the CFMMEU, to all, FORESTRY, MARITIME, MINING, ENERGY, CONSTRUCTION, MANUFACTURING. NO GOVERNMENT, NO ROGUE EMPLOYER, CAN EVER BEAT US,... WHEN WE STICK SOLID TOGETHER ! BECAUSE THATS HOW WE WIN !! Please watch this short video , In Unity, CHRISTY CAIN

20.01.2022 11.11.2020 #lestweforget

20.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/VicUnions/posts/1934650736674542

19.01.2022 These are tough times. It's ok not to be ok. 1300 000 129

19.01.2022 A message from John Setka to our members. You should be extremely proud of what we have achieved together this year, and we thank all of you. As we come to the end of 2020, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Stay safe and time to celebrate.

19.01.2022 Recently, the International Labour Organisation adopted a ground-breaking Convention, ILO C190, recognising the right of every worker across the world to a workplace free from violence and harassment. If ratified, the convention will place clear obligations on governments and employers to take steps to make this happen. Throughout our 16 Days of Activism, we will be asking to you sign and share our petition calling on the Federal Government to act on the convention, and recog...nise every worker’s right to be free from all forms of violence and harassment at work. For more information and to sign the petition: https://www.megaphone.org.au//ratify-ilo-c190-violence-and

18.01.2022 This week out at the Royal Park Tram upgrade - Fulton Hogan and YarraTrams hindered and obstructed and then proceeded to ring the police on CFMEU officials. For merely raising issues around CLEAR, health and safety issues on their occupation. It's YOUR RIGHT and the EMPLOYER'S RESPONSIBILITY to provide COMPLIANT and PROPER ameneties and facilities on construction sites - With works running 24/7 they had no sanitizer and soap in the portable toilets on site (sanitizer ...was added only whilst officials were being hindered and obstructed) - Dry cutting concrete and not watering down or monitoring levels of silica, which is exposing workers and members to the public - Multiple lifting chains out of date by 5 years - Poor fencing deliniation/separation of the works and the public - Extuinguishers out by 12 months on plant being operated on site

18.01.2022 Our own Dr Gerry Ayres, Health and Safety Manager for the VIC/TAS Branch explains that gendered violence is a workplace hazard like any other, and should be controlled the same. Workplace health and safety legislation around the country requires an employer to provide a work environment that is without risk to health and safety. We are calling on the Federal Government to recognise every worker’s right to be free from all forms of violence and harassment at work.... Please sign and share the petition: https://www.megaphone.org.au//ratify-ilo-c190-violence-and

17.01.2022 Throughout the 16 Days of Activism, we will be posting videos from our Health and Safety Team speaking about violence and harassment as a health and safety issue. See Nigel Davies, National Assistant Secretary speak. Sign the petition to help this issue become law in Australia.

16.01.2022 Please join us to remember the 35 West Gate workers we lost 50 years ago.

15.01.2022 These are tough times. It's ok not to be ok. 1300 000 129

15.01.2022 Happy NAIDOC Week! NAIDOC Week celebrations will be held from 8-15 November 2020

15.01.2022 Radio station SEN dedicated an entire day to the construction industry, to say thanks for everyone's efforts throughout a very tough year. It was well deserved recognition for the great job you've all done to keep our industry going.

15.01.2022 McConell Dowell/Decmill joint venture representatives threatened workers who had genuine concerns about their health and safety, calling it "illegal industrial action" and threatening officials with the ABCC - after then proceding to call them.. These stand over tactics and threats are a ploy to stop workers/unions having a voice and say in the workplace. Workers out at the Mordialac Bypass and CFMEU officials stood firm and had safety issue after, safety issue rectified out ...on the Government funded project. - Exposing the work force to silica dust with no monitoring, proper PPE or dust suppression controls in place - SDS (Safety Data Sheet) for recycled concrete and glass - used on haulroads and walkways was not available on request, once received almost three hours later, workers had not been given the information around controls as it was carcinogenic when inhaled - Project heat policy was not being adhered to, having workers walk over a kilometer to water and toliet facilities - Undercover walkway built without an engineered design - One portable toliet out on site - no soap and sanitizer as per project Covid management plan #whatyoudontseeonthefancyads

15.01.2022 All workers have the right to be free from all forms of violence and harassment at home and at work. We invite you to add a frame to your profile photo from today to December 10, to show your support during our 16 days of activism campaign. Please sign our petition here: https://www.megaphone.org.au//ratify-ilo-c190-violence-and Frame 1: www.facebook.com/profilepicframes/?selected_overlay_id=826014408194478... Frame 2: www.facebook.com/profilepicframes/?selected_overlay_id=2573170156229182 Frame 3: www.facebook.com/profilepicframes/?selected_overlay_id=373399077251040 Frame 4: www.facebook.com/profilepicframes/?selected_overlay_id=769363236978621 See more

15.01.2022 No consultation with public or the council from CPB, in regards to the bridge being demolished over a LIVE/OPEN PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE AND HIGHWAY. NO controls in place to protect the public or the workers as they use the wrong attachments on the excavator to chip away at the structure. - No controls or suppression for silica dust being generated by the works - Workers and the public exposed - No permits or licenses for demolition works... - SWMS (Safe Work Method Stamemt) doesn't identify the works, risks and controls - No first aid response for workers hurt in the medium strip of highway All works came to a stop by management and issues still being addressed before works recomence. Call Major Roads Project and let them know what you think 24/7 - 1800 105 105 #CFMEHeretostay #SackCPB #SafetybuisnessisUnionbuisness -

13.01.2022 Just Landed & Fresh for Summer ! Our new popular retro design " If provoked will strike" t-shirt. Buy now: www.cfmeu.shop

12.01.2022 Today marks 50 long and sorrowful years since Australia's worst industrial fatality. The collapse of the West Gate Bridge on October 15, 1970 took the lives of 35 workers, and seriously injured many more. The trauma it caused continues to ripple through families and to haunt the survivors and the workmates who were made to collect the bodies of their friends.... John Setka: "Today we pay our respects to the 35 workers who lost their lives and those who have been impacted by the tragedy forever, and remember why it is so important to continue to fight every day for the safety and lives of our members, to ensure they get home to their families This morning at 11.50am, building sites across our city will pause to pay tribute to those we lost as a result of builders' and engineers' negligence. A special service, by the West Gate Memorial Committee and the Victorian Trades Hall Council, will also be live-streamed. We hope that you will join us in honouring the lives of those that we lost. #SafetyIsUnionBusiness #GoneButNeverForgotten #TheyBuiltThisCity

11.01.2022 On 15 October 1970 at 11.50am Melbourne’s history changed forever. The West Gate Bridge collapse is the worst industrial construction disaster to occur in our state’s history. Today we pay our respects to the 35 workers who lost their lives and those who have been impacted by this tragedy forever, and remember why it is so important to fight everyday for the safety of our members.

10.01.2022 AFTER CFMEU intervention out at Yarra trams and Fulton Hogan tram Occupation - Officials followed up after the project agreed to stop and rectify issues after Police were called, and hindering and obstructing officials all failed, the project finally complied with their duty of care - All issues identified were rectified before works commenced again. #standupspeakoutcomehome

09.01.2022 Fulton Hogan's management's attitude at the RIA occupation - Watergardens Station upgrade when it's comes to safety.. #safetybuisnessisunionbuisness

09.01.2022 Safety still second on the list for Fulton Hogan out at Watergardens Upgrade. No paperwork for pre-cast panels and shonky lifters, expecting workers to lift and install them putting themselves at risk - all on a Goverment funded project.

09.01.2022 It will be 50 years tomorrow since Australia's worst industrial fatality. When the West Gate Bridge collapsed on October 15, 1970, it took the lives of 35 workers with it. Dozens more were scarred for life by a tragedy that can never be forgotten.... Tomorrow, building sites across our city will halt work at 11.50am to pay tribute to those we lost as a result of builders' negligence. We will also be sharing a special live-streamed memorial, via the Victorian Trades Hall Council. We hope that you will join us in honouring the lives of these irreplaceable men. #SafetyIsUnionBusiness

08.01.2022 Today at sites across Melbourne we paid our respects to the 35 brothers and sisters that lost their lives with the collapse of the West Gate Bridge, 50 years ago today.

08.01.2022 Shout out and big thanks to Dave Hawkins and his crew at Queens Place who raised $2475 for the Good Samaritan Inn - supporting the 16 days of activism campaign. Left: David Hawkins - CFMEU delegate Right: Felicity Rorke - CEO of Good Samaritan Inn

06.01.2022 CPB Contractors struggling with managing asbestos, among other issues at the North East Link - - Asbestos removal notification to Worksafe out by over a month - Trucks weren't compliant with project requirements ... - Drivers weren't being Covid inducted as per site requirements - No suppression or systems in place to stop asbestos contaminated soil spreading to non effected areas - No tape to identify asbestos areas - No PPE supplied to workers #somethingtohideatNorthEastLink

05.01.2022 If you don't fight you loose! Tune in to this week's Concrete gang for the latest updates, of what's happening in the construction industry..

05.01.2022 To all our brothers and sisters in WA, Our condolences to the worker who has tragically lost his life, and our prayers for those that were injured. No one should ever go to work and not come home! ... Stay Strong, Stay Safe. In Unity, always, CFMEU Victoria Branch. #SafetyIsUnionBusiness https://www.abc.net.au//curtin-university-roof-co/12762640

04.01.2022 At a job in South Melbourne, there’s just one toilet for 50 blokes on-site. There’s a raft of other issues there too: No COVID plan. No Peggy. Might not even be toilet paper. It’s so bad there that even WorkSafe has been slapping them with notices. ... That and plenty more on this week’s edition of The Concrete Gang. Hear it here: https://audio.3cr.org.au//202010110930_the-concrete-gang_6

04.01.2022 Quanstruct builders out at Quality Drive in Dandenong South, are anything but "Quality".. Covid management plans, first aid facilities and toliet facilities all down the toilet out at this cold storage facility..

04.01.2022 Updates in the industry - from pre-cast panel failures, to Scallywags of the week.. DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN!

03.01.2022 Shane Jacobson has spent the last three years making his tribute to the workers we lost 50 years ago in the West Gate Bridge collapse. Tonight, it hits the screen for the first time. Catch it on Channel 9 from 7.30pm.

02.01.2022 More footage, photos and complaints sent in day after day from members of the public, of unsafe practices on CPB/Goverment funded sites... After receiving this complaint, Officials attended the Monash Upgrade site to address these safety concerns, and assisted CPB in rectifying the issues. #Standup #Speakout #Comehome