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The royal commission also heard the case study of an ACT building site visited by the CFMEU under the guise of a safety inspection, but which resulted in a building contractor calling triple 0 because the union officials wanted him to 'step up and have a fight'. The CFMEU officials also blocked a truck contracted to do a concrete pour, resulting in the pour being cancelled, costing the contractor $10,000.

The CFMEU also has form in disrupting works, as evidenced from a recorded telephone conversation of CFMEU official Anthony Vitler, who, while visiting a Sydney worksite, rang a fellow official to state:

… they're attempting to set up a pump, so we—we're … gonna have a bit of a—

expletive—

crack.

These are the reasons why the Heydon royal commission stated that the sustained and entrenched disregard for both industrial and criminal laws shown by the country's largest construction union further support the need for the ABCC. (Time expired)