Construction workers at a Lonsdale Street building site block Lonsdale Street and use it for a tea room after being banned from using tearooms due to Covid. 17th September 2021 The Age news Picture by Joe ArmaoAbout 150 tradies attended from a Multiplex site on Lonsdale street near King street, firing up a barbecue and sharing soft drinks as traffic was forced to bypass the area for about 20 minutes.
Police surrounded the civil, peaceful protest in what appeared to be an effort to stop it expanding and stopping traffic elsewhere. Construction workers are unhappy with a series of measures introduced yesterday to prevent transmission on-site, including closing tearooms and a mandate to receive one vaccine dose if they want to continue working from next Friday.COVID response commander Jeroen Weimar said people were bending over backwards to keep the construction industry going and some workers needed to check their privilege.
Construction workers at a Lonsdale Street building site block Lonsdale Street and use it for a tea room after being banned from using tearooms due to Covid. 17th September 2021.Mr Weimar said tearooms posed a significant risk of transmission with workers coming from different parts of the city, sitting in small spaces, and eating and drinking.
Selfish C's
Such entitlement!!! Clearly no regard for anyone aside themselves. If they did the right thing to begin with, no doubt they'd still have their precious smoko-room.
No signs of police violence there. I wonder why not?
So we are now spending $500m around the nation on 'quarantine hubs' when the virus is completely under control for those who are vaxxed and of little danger to those left unvaxxed.
All those who are vulnerable to covid should have damn well been vaccinated by now or else isolated EndAllLockdowns LockdownsAreProofOfPoliticalFailure
I’d be embarrassed knowing I was a parent that behaved in this manner or raised a child that behaved like this. This speaks volumes about how poorly we are doing on raising the next generation to look beyond their own self serving wants. I’m appalled and disgusted by all of them.
I'm quite sure a snaggy roll with sauce and chocolate big M can be consumed anywhere and not just limited to a table and chair. Unless this was with tablecloth, cutlery, candles and soft music music playing
I feel that these workers have let everyone down who have worked hard and made sacrifices to get COVID under control whilst they flaunted rules and been given concessions since lockdown v1. They are the problem
Children
Maybe the nurses union could join them in solidarity. Probability not, they haven’t time for a tea break. Sad that some of our toughest come across looking so pathetic.
Selfish act by union idiots having a cry because they can’t have a pie at same time as their friend. Primary school kids behave better than this.
Fucken cats.
never do vaccine The purpose of the vaccine is to destroy and rewrite human DNA, so humans will easily die and be controlled. Therefore, the Illuminati and the dark forces of the universe can enslave human beings on Earth forever. 坚决不打疫苗 疫苗的目的是破坏和改写人类的dna ，
What a bloody joke!! Sooks
Poor folks as they spend more time in the tea rooms than working. Now they will have to work with shorter smokos that’s the problem
Just close the sites down , if they don't follow rules like the rest of us.
Flogs.
Every industry was shutdown except the construction. You shut their tea room and they come on the road. Too much influence on the government both ALP and LNP.
My tea rooms!
Why don’t they just work 4 hours only….. Then they won’t need a break.
Love it. These workers have done their best to comply with restrictions. The bosses have spent 10s of 1000s of dollars ensuring adequate amenities including the mandatory 4m2 rule. Can’t say I blame them. All in good fun. No harm done.
I don’t understand, don’t they care about their friends, family and the wider community? Just selfish.
Good on them
Little miss muffats
Melbourne is already such a ghost town that it wouldn’t matter much where the tradies sat for lunch.
Hi viz knucklers
👏🏼 stand your ground boys
Can You Blame Em!
gross
Why was this not a norm in lockdown 1 Dan?
At least wear a mask please .
Today we actually got to see how much work they do. Fuck all. 🙄
Complete and utter fuckwits. Can't justify any thing else to call them.
You think with all these tradies with expensive utes and landcruisers etc would recline and chill out in their car. Thinking the helmet is restricting oxygen to the brain.
The 25% who actually get to be at work and earning their normal living. Should consider themselves lucky to have jobs but instead protesting smoko sheds are shut down. Such arrogance.
I get that they have been protected by DanielAndrewsMP but I love to see anyone pointing out the Pythonesque nature of Sutton’s current settings
Very tone-deaf protest. They are privileged to be able to continue doing their jobs with relatively few restrictions. Most of us would love to be back at work in some form. They are so entitled. Shut them down if they can’t follow rules like the rest of us.
Only pricks won’t get their pricks.
D’ heads
Well done. I like it
For fucks sakes. Just shut them down, if they want to protest over this
All this fuss for not being able to eat your lunch in a room with your friends. Peak first world problem
Interested as to why the Vic Police didn’t treat this as a protest as they will tomorrow. No difference.
I’m sorry, precious tradies, that you may have lost your tea rooms for, in the scheme of things, will be a limited window of time… if you are unhappy about it, why don’t you venture into health, where tea rooms for every department are a luxury
I thought tradies were supposed to be tough. What a pack of sooky sooky la las!
Selfish, selfish, be grateful you have a job.
Love a good protest as much as the next guy,but was Andrews sending in Armed cops to deal with it.
And Elizabeth St and Therry St and a'beckett street. Not a police officer to be seen. But tomorrow it will be police state. We know who Dan is a puppet to CFMEU, Fire fighters.... lockdowns need to end
REALLY
White European or Asian workers?
They don’t do any work anyway, they just stand around half the time
Absolutely flogs
Just men behaving very badly.
The “Commander🤡” tells blue collar workers to “check their privilege”. smoko underhiseye bewareofthewoke
Sort of disappointing to see so many workers just thinking about their tea break. Perhaps they should spend a day in a COVID ward and observe the full PPE and see how nurses and doctors can’t even have a sip of water.
says it all
Do the Tradies want sympathy? We are all struggling to get through the pandemic and they are disrespecting others.
Aw shucks. They can’t use their tea room. What about all those poor health care workers?!!! Shame on them. Where are their Unions. For Gods sake they will expect the nursing staff to care for them if they become ill! How many vaccinated ? Damned lucky they can still work. SHame
What a bunch of selfish flogs! 🤬
MarieColemanAO I've never, ever, known my husband to have access to a tearoom. This is just weird.
Today I am ashamed to call myself a unionist. No tearoom? People have no work because they are doing the right thing. Selfish Bastards.
Bless em.
Weak bastards
Privileged to work and make money while thousands can't and they have a sook because they can't eat in a tea room. Like have some perspective
One set of rules for his Union mates and city shut down and violence for others. AGE do you job ask the hard questions!
Pretty sure blatantly is a prerequisite to any protest
They did this in Geelong too. Blocked off the road outside the cities biggest aged care centre. At 1pm, during staff change over time.
Here we are sweating through our PPE caring for covid patients in hospital while these unmasked, non socially distanced sooks are protesting about their tea room. Unbelievable
Ironic that they’re fine pouring rum in their faces and sucking down ciggies but don’t want to taint themselves with a vaccine.
This just underscores the argument for automation. Who wants to deal with dunces like this for employees?
Good on them
Maybe this is what the protestors should do on Sunday. Grab a chair.
Health workers. No tea room. Dress like this for 12hrs. Construction = privileged.
While health workers sweat it out in full PPE, trying to keep hospitals functioning.
It seems Dan got the wrong day to barricade the city shut!!! Nice one guys 👏👏👏
At least these guys won’t justifiably complain too much for the next environmental protest downtown.
flogs
I assume this isn’t going to help domestic trades that are happy to have smoko on whatever they can find to sit on. Small business doing what they can to stay afloat and doin this will make the government make stricter rules, fcukin ridiculous
Good on them👍🏻
Not a brain cell in site. Not a typo.
Real Tough guys! ……Meanwhile health workers are saving lives
Use the term workers very loosely please..they take 10 years to fix a pot hole..4 standing watching and 1 holding a stop sign..🤣🤣🤣
No wonder every job in town runs late and over budget.
Glad the police didnt show up with rubber bullets and gas to disperse these unruly protestors, enjoying a quiet smoko. Perhaps Dan's gone soft?
No Tradies no house for you very simple
What a bunch of pathetic cry babies👶🏻🍼🧸
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