Australia's peak body for builders advocate to investigate improper industry behaviour

Australia's peak body for builders says the state government needs to investigate fresh claims of improper behaviour by the builders' union in WA.

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00:00Campaigning in Perth's northern suburbs.

00:05Watch out Labor, here we come.

00:09Exactly.

00:11The WA Liberals were happy to seize on allegations

00:14against the CFMEU on home soil.

00:17The last two weeks in particular have shown Australians

00:21that Mr Albanese does not govern in the best interests of Australians.

00:27He governs in the best interests of the CFMEU.

00:31The federal ALP has cut ties with the construction arm of the CFMEU

00:36after allegations of unlawful operations

00:39and criminal underworld links in the eastern states.

00:42Now the Master Builders Association says its members

00:45have raised concerns in WA.

00:48In an email to members, it said allegations of coercive behaviour,

00:52aggressive targeting of subcontractors

00:55and illegal trespassing on sites by union delegates

00:58have been reported to them

01:00and is calling on both the state and federal governments

01:03to take further action.

01:05Placing the CFMEU in administration is the weakest possible pathway

01:10that Mr Albanese could have gone down.

01:14But the union in WA says its record is clean.

01:18It's easy to make bold statements out there.

01:20I put it to the NBA Friday, show me these statements,

01:23show me the problems that you've got.

01:25I need to know about them so I can fix them.

01:27The reality is, as far as I'm concerned, there isn't any.

01:30The WA government says there's no place for bikies

01:33or criminal behaviour in the union

01:35and is calling for any members with evidence of inappropriate behaviour

01:39or criminal activity to contact police.