Unions warn Coalition's workplace bill will spark industrial action when bosses seek pay cuts

Construction workers up for the fight' as ACTU coordinates campaign against new law

Union leaders are warning that the Coalition's industrial relations bill will embolden bosses seeking pay cuts and provoke industrial action in retaliation.

The Construction Forestry Mining Maritime Energy Union's national secretary, Dave Noonan, told Guardian Australia the construction union was up for the fight" and would do everything we can" including action in the workplace to resist the changes.