Melbourne tradies stop traffic and trams in protest against tearoom ban

On Friday workers gathered on plastic chairs in the middle of a host of busy city streets including Lonsdale Street, Swanston Street and Sydney Road.

Victorian COVID Commander, Jeroen Weimar said asking construction workers to have lunch outside"doesn't seem unreasonable". Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Under the new restrictions announced on Thursday construction workers will need to have had their first vaccine by September 23 or show proof of booking.

“I appreciate that's inconvenient and it's a further constraint but we're trying to minimise particularly seeding of further infections into regional Victoria who was working in the Ballarat area," he said.

Such entitlement. Why do they think they are better than the rest of us? walked past a group of 7 tradies yesterday. ALL were wearing their masks around their chins standing there chatting. Just appallingly selfish.

Well the Covid mandates on construction industry is just plain ridiculous 🤦‍♀️ where’s the scientific evidence to back this up DanielAndrewsMP how about you share the public health advice on this? Long overdue _davidlimbrick

Well, should be no tea room in offices either then! Otherwise double standards

How sad for them, no tea room. How are they ever going to cope?

Common sense. Anyone who sees this as dangerous and civil disobedience needs a complete brain rewiring. IStandwithDan covid19vic auspol

Good on them

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that's something you don't see very often, tradies doing nothing constructive. 🙄

No doubt fines dolled out and heavy police presence involved. Oh wait it's No Plan Dan's union mates involved. Shambles.

Vic police decide who can break the law and who can’t now do they? DanielAndrewsMP rachelbaxendale

Cops did nothing!

For perspective, imagine if this was a group of doctors or nurses doing this. Not a good look for these tradies, they have totally misread the room here. We're all making sacrifices during the pandemic. Tradies have been largely unaffected. Earning bloody good coin too!

This is what you get from vaccination

Unlike many people who are NOT allowed to go to work, these princesses who ARE allowed to work decide, boo hoo we can't take smoko in our tea room so let's break the law and stop traffic. Real heroes!

Imagine health workers in full PPE who can't even get a drink of water during their shift watching this bunch of man-babies on the TV tonight.

I do hope people stand up to the craziness of lockdown and division - but without violence or hijacking of agendas by the looney left

Union making deals with the government, but seems the rank and file aren't onboard.

As long as it was a big ticket item😎

Welcome to our world! Try no income!

Selfish jerks. The country puts everyone at risk to ensure these creeps can still work but NOOOOOO that’s still not enough for them. Weak pathetic losers…..

people who want to live with covid refuse to live with covid

Regional WA should do this to all roads out of Perth to protest the changes to the WA Legislative Council.

DanielAndrewsMP is nowhere to be seen when things get real again…..

It’s smoko mate. 👍

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