The CFMEU's behaviour in Queensland looks less like a union and more like an organised crime outfit, two of the world's leading criminologists say.
Professors Federico Varese and Paolo Campana say the union's alleged conduct was likely to fall within criminal governance, where a group uses fear, pressure and back‑room influence to control a market.
"The allegations concerning the union are consistent with several of these features," Prof Varese told the Queensland Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU on Thursday.
