Friday, March 2, 2012

Fed: Man's wife threatened on union picket line, inquiry told

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Fed: Man's wife threatened on union picket line, inquiry told

The Royal Commission into Australia's construction industry has been told a bitterindustrial dispute on the Sunshine Coast last year erupted into threats of physical violenceand intimidation.

The dispute broke out in May over alleged safety issues but soon escalated into a fightover enterprise bargaining between unions and Rockhampton-based construction company JMKelly.

RICHARD FORBES, who was site manager at the $13 million extension to the Nambour Hospital,said Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union organiser TIM NISBET yelled …

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