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Labor’s plan to boost apprenticeships is a welcome initiative to fill skills gap

The CFMEU has welcomed Labor’s initiative to increase apprentice numbers through ensuing a proportion of jobs on major federally funded projects are delivered as apprenticeships.

The Turnbull Government’s announcement that they will regulate to stop systemic wage fraud and add $20 million to the Fair Work Ombudsman’s budget is nothing other than a pretend fix to the problem his Government is responsible for, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy union has said tod

Sunday 1 May
11:30am: assemble near the CFMEU, cnr New Town & Augusta Rd, Hobart.
12:00pm: march commences down Elizabeth Street. (Leave flags and banners at Unions Tasmania afterward)
12:45pm: BBQ at the Republic Bar & Cafe.

Messages of solidarity with CFMEU Victoria officials John Setka and Shaun Reardon have been flooding in from Australian and Internaitonal Unions.

What are the achievements of the Abbott Government? What policies and programs have they implemented to take Australia forward in handling the many changes and challenges ahead?