CV and mad panic behaviour

[shawny]

Very Violent protests in Melbourne with building workers getting the rubber bullet treatment, be interested in what Krudd and Shawny think of proceedings. Police have been over the top and Andrews should have responded to the workers questions a bit earlier instead of making them wait and get frustrated which has led to violence.

Personally I've never been a fan of the unions even though in some areas I guess they are a necessary evil - generally have little to no regard for their employer and pretty much take what they can get and will walk off site at the drop of a hat. I've seen them shut down a site because the builder didn't have a roof covering the lunch sheds to the toilets and said they are in the process of erecting one and it would be up within a week -well that wasn't acceptable and they demanded it be done that day so the builder was forced to shut the site kick every contractor off until they were satisfied and allowed it to reopen.

Its this sort of crap that sees most real hard workers trades dislike them as they get the a bad name for whole industry which is very unfair as most tradies work bloody hard and like my boys have long lasting strong relationships with their employers.  If you are mid size contractor in the building game there is little incentive IMO to grow your business as you are more likely to have to look at projects for the Tier 1 builders and all those sites have strong union presence and that's when the fun starts if your not geared up for it.

Unfortunately its the minority that cause this reaction that is likely to affect the whole industry where the majority are innocent hard honest workers and companies who don't want to get involved in protests full stop. Look in my circle most workers and employers would have preferred to have been offered the choice to take the vaccine but just prefer to accept it and move on as if it good enough for health workers to have to take it its good enough for construction (however i have heard that no decision has been made if parliament will be a vaccine requirement workplace....... surely)  The union still have strong ties and big pull over the Tier 1 projects which employ a huge amount of workers and companies directly and indirectly and if they don't accept this restriction they can make life very hard for many innocent parties which is wrong but unfortunately its the way it still is. If the unions kick in their heels things can get very ugly. 

Wonder if the unions think they can bully Dan into backflipping here -  I mean he did talk up and not deliver the additional 4000 ICU beds he promised early last year so it wouldn't be the first time.