Fighting for subbies rights
TO ALL SUBCONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS
If you value your livelihood, your family home and your sanity, read this and I mean,
TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT!
After you read it, talk to your local members, talk to each other, join Subcontractors Alliance and SubbiesUnited to help us fight this stupidity.
Since 22nd December, South East Qld subbies have had to endure the liquidations of Cullen Group, Batir, Bluestone, The Ashtay Group (CMS Design & Build) and I am sure I have missed some.
Then theres the Bloomer Constructions battle to see subbies get paid but it's slow and time consuming and while it's happening, it's not helping subbies cashflow which is already under extreme pressure.
The big positive is the Bloomer funds are starting to flow to subbies. We can expect in the vicinity of 7 to 10 million this week but as for the list above, there will be nothing, at least in the short term.
There will be nothing until subbies change their attitude of "she'll be right mate".
40 to 50 million of OUR money, representing hundreds of thousands of hours of our work have been trashed or stolen by the corporate thieves of the Building Industry in the first 10 weeks of 2017.
This dumb effort by our Federal Government (below) will unleash a tsunami of liquidations and allow the directors to just walk away untouched and then do it over and over again.
It's almost impossible to believe that we have allowed a Merchant Banker to run the nation.
It's an appalling idea. They have forgotten about the millions of subcontractors and suppliers in the process of dreaming up this "innovative and agile" idea.
While SubbiesUnited and Subcontractors Alliance try to be apolitical, its hard when they are all so bad. Is the alternative worse? Probably so that leaves us all up shit creek without a paddle.
Les Williams from Subcontractors Alliance wrote the following story, the consequences of it are frightening.
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