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Cozadinos v CFMEU and Ioannidis


Applicant:
ABCC Inspector Michelle Cozadinos 
Respondent(s):
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Tony Ioannidis 
Date filed:
27 May 2009 
Outcome:

Agreed penalties of $6,000 for the CFMEU and $1,000 for Ioannidis were handed down by the court on 22 February 2010.
Background:

A subcontracting company was engaged to carry out concreting work at the Westfield Doncaster Shoppingtown project in Doncaster, Victoria.

On 3 March 2008, the company’s director and two employees were engaged in a concrete pour at the project. The workers were asked to attend a meeting with CFMEU organiser Mr Tony Ioannidis at the CFMEU site office.

Mr Ioannidis asked the director and the two employees whether they were members of the CFMEU. The director was a financial member of the CFMEU but the two employees were not.

Mr Ioannidis told the two employees that he was going to stop them working at the site because they were not members of the CFMEU.

The ABCC alleged that the CFMEU and Mr Ioannidis contravened the Freedom of Association provisions of the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

The Respondents admitted contraventions and reached agreed penalties with the ABCC.