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Traffic controllers’ pay went from $609 to $1225 a day under CFMEU

Former Victorian premier and transport minister Jacinta Allan was warned in ministerial briefings that a CFMEU campaign to double the cost of traffic controllers on the government’s infrastructure program would blow out costs by more than $400 million.

The royal commission into Victoria’s construction industry heard on Monday how the union helped send bills for traffic controllers on the Big Build soaring from $609 each a day to $1225 after it shut down a major project to pressure contractors to install its preferred labour hire firms.

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Chris Young, KC, talks fast and barely stumbles. The lead counsel assisting the inelegantly named Royal Commission into the Integrity of Major Public and Civil Infrastructure Construction Projects in Victoria, spent most of the first substantive day of hearings reading from documents.

Players in Victoria’s Big Build have already handed over 110,000 of them and Young, who it appears is well across his brief, used them to paint a series of quick-fire word pictures.

The CFMEU had “unprecedented” access to the state government of Jacinta Allan and Daniel Andrews because of their personal and factional links, he said, reading from a note prepared by John Holland, one of the nation’s largest construction companies.

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