"The union movement will grow again as it struggles for these changes and at the same time pursues strong industrial campaigns that demonstrate the logic and importance of “changing the rules” and to defy those broken rules, to win more security in more jobs, to lift wages and improve conditions, and establish fundamental rights at work that enable workers to assert their dignity."

Tom McDonald, former National Secretary Building Workers Industrial Union & Founding Trustee of Construction and Building Unions Superannuation (CBUS), wrote to Fairfax national political editor Peter Hartcher, in response to Hartcher’s call for the CFMMEU to be de-registered.

The CFMMEU led large union demonstrations in multiple locations to demand the Right to Strike on Thursday, with over 8000 workers participating in Sydney CBD alone.