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Australia Construction worker threatened with jail
Thursday, 10, June 2010


South Australian construction worker Ark Tribe is currently before the courts facing up to six months imprisonment on charges relating to his refusal to be interrogated by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). The building industry “watchdog” was established by former Prime Minister John Howard in 2005 and retained by Kevin Rudd’s Labor government.While the ABCC has hit workers and construction unions with fines totalling millions of dollars, Tribe is the first worker to be threatened with jail.

If he is convicted and imprisoned, the building unions have warned that they expect workers in the industry to strike in protest across Australia.Tribe’s “crime” was to have participated in a stop-work meeting held on May 30, 2008 at a building site at Adelaide’s Flinders University. The workers discussed serious and persistent safety issues and voted to strike for the rest of the day. The building company operator, Hindmarsh Constructions, responded by calling the police and locking out the workers the following day.



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