The CFMEU welcomes Grocon's decision today to abandon its attemp to ram through an EBA "agreement" and mislead workers (Friday January 20 2012).

The CFMEU initiated proceedings against Grocon and its industrial relations director John Van Camp in the Federal Court to stop workers being misled over a new enterprise agreement.

"The union has been negoaitating with Grocon on behalf of its members for some time, and we thought those talks were ongoing," said State Secretary Bill Oliver.

"Instead, Grocon tried to get a shonky agreement voted up and in the process misled employees by attempting to represent the offer as endorsed by the union."

Welcome move
This afternoon the CFMEU received notice from Grocon that they will be withdrawing the ballot. Van Camp has written to employees to state that due to the union's legal action, Grocon will not be proceecding and ballots are to be destroyed.

 "The CFMEU welcomes this move," said Bill Oliver. "And we will continue to fight to improve the terms and conditions of the agreement on behalf of Grocon employees.

"We will also pursue Mr  Van Camp and Grocon in the Federal Court over knowingly making misleading representations about the agreement. We also condemn Van Camp's misleading comments in today's Australian Financial Review in which he claimed the law was on his side."