Union leaders Jacqueline King and Stacey Schinnerl on witness list for probe’s second hearing block
In case you missed it, last week our state politics correspondent Matt Dennien reported on a flawed arrangement between the industrial relations office and Queensland police that has allowed CFMEU officials who have been stripped of their entry permits to enter construction sites for years.
The flawed memorandum allowed banned CFMEU officials to enter work sites.Credit: Monique Westermann
And the public official listed as the point of contact in any dispute for which police were called was the same person who was described at inquiry hearings as having a “very close relationship” with “someone senior in the CFMEU office”.
Helen Burgess, Person disciplined over how he dealt with CFMEU complaint sent to personal phoneHe was named in investigator Geoffrey Watson’s June report into union violence as a former bureaucrat investigated by the Crime and Corruption Commission.
Burgess, the unnamed union official and then Workplace Health and Safety’s director of construction compliance and field services, was using his powers to order inspectors, according to evidence Watson gave in the state government’s investigation of the union.
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