Bovis Lend Lease was the head contactor engaged to construct a new business centre for the ANZ bank with an estimated value of $501 million, located at Docklands, Victoria.
Bovis Lend Lease engaged numerous subcontractors to carry out electrical work at the site.
The ABCC alleged that a CEPU official attended the site on several occasions and asked workers at the site if they were members of the union. On 23 September 2009 the CEPU official attended the site and organised and conducted a stop-work meeting of in excess of 100 workers until about 8.30am.
The ABCC alleged that they took this action because some employees at the site were not CEPU members.
The CEPU admitted that, through its official, it contravened s.348 of the Fair Work Act 2009 by taking and threatening to take action against another person with the intent to coerce them to engage in industrial activity.
On Friday 18 November the Federal Magistrates Court imposed a penalty of $10,000 on the CEPU.