Allan warned CFMEU takeover of traffic control could add more than $400m to Big Build costs, royal commission hears
Briefings prepared for then-minister in 2022–23 estimated that applying the union's terms across major projects could add well over $400m, the inquiry into Victoria's construction industry was told.
Victoria's royal commission into the building industry has heard that Jacinta Allan's department prepared briefings in 2022 and 2023 warning that a CFMEU campaign to take over traffic control on major projects could alone inflate the Big Build's costs by more than $400 million. The first day of hearings on Monday detailed how the union seized control of the $110 million Gap Road level crossing removal project in Sunbury, shutting it down for 36 hours in June 2022, and how pleas to Victoria Police and WorkSafe had no effect.