Jacinta Allan’s ministerial office said contractors “can’t have any more work in Victoria” if they didn’t handle industrial relations with the CFMEU, the Big Build royal commission just heard.
Peter Wilkinson, previously a senior public servant at Rail Projects Victoria, gave evidence today that his then-colleague, Evan Tattersall, told him he’d spoken to the minister’s office after the CFMEU stopped work at the Gap Road level crossing removal project in Sunbury in June 2022.
The union demanded its preferred subcontractors and safety officials were installed, but the consortium didn’t want to agree, the inquiry heard.
Wilkinson said he discussed the dispute with Tattersall, who then the chief executive of Rail Projects Victoria, before his superior later “gave feedback from the minister’s office” to him. Allan was the minister responsible for transport infrastructure at the time.
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