The CFMEU has copped a maximum fine for 2014 industrial action over the right to wear shorts

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated March 11 2018 - 10:02am, first published 10:00am
Fined: Former Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union organiser Pomare Auimatagi. He was fined along with the union after industrial action on a Newcastle University construction site in 2014.
Fined: Former Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union organiser Pomare Auimatagi. He was fined along with the union after industrial action on a Newcastle University construction site in 2014.

THE UNION behind a three day workers walk-off on a Newcastle University construction site over the right to wear shorts and short-sleeved shirts has been slammed by a judge as “reprehensible” enough to warrant maximum penalties.

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