Builders Labourers Federation

BLFQ
Builders Labourers Federation Queensland
Merged intoConstruction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
Founded1910
Dissolved1986
HeadquartersBrisbane, Queensland
Location
  • Australia
Key people
David Hanna (State Secretary), Kane Pearson (State Assistant Secretary).
AffiliationsAustralian Labor Party

The Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) was an Australian trade union that existed from 1911 until 1972, and from 1976 until 1986, when it was deregistered in various Australian states by the Hawke Government and some state governments of the time. This occurred in the wake of a Royal Commission into corruption by the union. About the same time, BLF federal secretary Norm Gallagher was jailed for corrupt dealings after receiving bribes from building companies that he used to build a beach house.

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