How a bitter firefighters' pay dispute turned toxic in Victoria

He was busy on "secret business", he told staff in another.The next day, he was secretly holed up in a hotel room with union secretary Peter Marshall — who had booked the room, and brought a small team of negotiators — as well as then Department of Premier and Cabinet deputy secretary Tony Bates.They had already spent three days in a rented meeting space."Handshake has occurred — it's done!" Mr Jennings texted Mr Andrews after the final meeting, which an unnamed senator joined to act as an intermediary That's my experience of it," Ms Neville said."[Laughs] Yeah, that's right [laughs]," Mr Marshall said.In a separate call with the then-Canadian fire chief, who was appointed FRV commissioner, Mr Marshall said: "We got rid of [the CEO] … now we've just got to get you over here somehow."Mr Marshall on Wednesday said IBAC itself should be investigated for wielding intrusive surveillance methods yet failing to make any findings of corrupt conduct.The UFU's office and Mr Marshall's home were both raided by anti-corruption detectives."This was a pursuit in search of a case that never existed to begin with," he said in a statement.One witness told IBAC that lots of staffers "were suffering some severe mental health issues" because of the way Mr Marshall treated them and spoke to them