That $15 billion that you keep hearing about?
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Completely made up.
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It's been misquoted and what he was talking about was workers wages the whole time.
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Union wages - award wages (legal minimum) = $15bn
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So somehow unions collectively bargaining on behalf of their members is a waste of public funds and therefore corruption? If that's the case what isn't corruption?
Geoffrey Watson, the man who has set off every anti-CFMEU nutcase around the country!
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His own words, the $15bn wasn't corruption, it was wages.
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He says heavily accelerated wages, that's were he should do his research, Union wages are higher than the industry Award minimum, but no employer pays the industry Award rate it's $5/hr more than the minimum wage.
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It might surprise Mr Watson that the hourly rates paid on Victorian Big Build projects is identical to those paid on commercial office buildings, on hospitals, on prisons, on logistics sheds, on data centres, on apartments buildings, on refurbishments, on shopping centres, on sport stadiums.
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The aren't accelerated they are industry rates.
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