Allan’s office warned builders – no work without CFMEU

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John Holland and CPB were passed a message from the then-minister’s office that they couldn’t have “any more work in Victoria” if they didn’t end a dispute with the union.

Then-minister Jacinta Allan’s office sent a message to the consortium behind a $110 million rail project in Melbourne that it would not receive any more government work in Victoria if it did not end an industrial relations dispute with the CFMEU.

Peter Wilkinson, a former senior public servant at Rail Projects Victoria, told the royal commission into corruption in Victoria’s building industry on Friday that the body’s then-chief executive, Evan Tattersall, told him he had spoken to the minister’s office after the CFMEU stopped work at the Gap Road level crossing removal project in Sunbury in June 2022.

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