Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA chief executive Deidre Willmott has urged the Abbott government to go harder on its proposed industrial relations reforms, arguing more needs to be done to tackle union militancy.
Industry groups have welcomed the federal government's appointment of the former commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Australian Building and Construction Commission to lead the soon to be revived building industry watchdog.
Australian Building and Construction Commissioner John Lloyd has ruled that Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union assistant state secretary Joe McDonald had engaged in unlawful industrial action after encouraging workers to call in sick en masse
