Queensland business manager says Islander workers are not smart enough to manage safety

Exclusive: Steven James of Enco Precast, which has been in a high-profile dispute with the CFMEU, says Islanders ‘have barely passed grade seven’

A Queensland business manager at the centre of a long-running standoff with the construction union has told union officials his Pacific Islander workers are not smart or safety conscious.

“The Islander culture does not have self-preservation,” the general manager of Enco Precast, Steven James, told representatives from the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union at a recent meeting, which was recorded by the union.

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