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First criminal-cartel case involving Australian labor union delayed until August

By Laurel Henning ( April 29, 2019, 02:15 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s top construction and mining union, the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union, won a four-month reprieve in a Canberra court today, with a demand by the union’s lawyers to cross examine witnesses in the criminal-cartel prosecution pushing the next hearing to August. Judge Peter Morrison, in the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory, granted lawyers for the CFMMEU until Aug. 13 to make an application to cross examine the witnesses, effectively adjourning Australia’s first criminal-cartel prosecution against a labor organization until Aug. 20.Australia’s top construction and mining union, the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union, or CFMMEU, won a four-month reprieve in a Canberra court today, with the demand by the union’s lawyers to cross examine witnesses in the criminal-cartel prosecution pushing the next hearing to August....

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