The CFMEU is now threatening the police. Piers Ackerman:...

The CFMEU is now threatening the police.

Piers Ackerman:

Queensland’s bikies will be cheering the new Attorney-General on, just as they are applauding in Victoria, where they are in league with the rogue CFMEU.

There, Premier Andrews moved quickly to scrap the state’s building code, which includes drug and alcohol testing on construction sites in a huge payback to the CFMEU, which supports his Socialist Left faction…

Union [spokesman] Derek Christopher exemplified the CFMEU’s rogue element when he told demonstrators outside the Myer Emporium construction site in 2012: “There’s 11,000 coppers in the country or in Victoria and there’s 30,000 members of the CFMEU and greater among the other unions when we call on their support, so we’re up around the 50,000 mark, so bring it on we’re ready to rumble.”

Make no mistake, the unions own the ALP — and increasingly, the Greens. Australian Electoral Commission records released last month showed donations by CFMEU divisions to federal and state ALP branches were estimated at about $1.2 million.

The Greens $360,000 from the Electrical Trades Union and $125,000 from the CFMEU’s construction division. That would explain why Labor and the Greens last week voted down government legislation in the Senate which would have made union officials abide by the same rules which apply to company officials.