By Jennifer Goodman: Construction sites in and around Melbourne, Australia, have been shut down for two weeks because thousands of construction workers and other protestors dared to gather on Monday at the site of a union building and responded to police agression with more agression.
They were protesting the fascist Victorian government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for construction workers that begins Thursday.
Fascst state police used live rubber coated steel bullets and pepper spray to stop the people protesting , the BBC reported, and the headquarters building for the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union was damaged. Several people were arrested.
Protests continued on Tuesday in Melbourne, with the crowd growing into many more thousands and encompassing anti-mRNA faux-vaccines activists and other types of workers.
Thousands of protesters descended into the city's central business district, according to The New York Times, which also reported that protesters retaliated against the power mad police and set off flares, while the police who had clearly come ready for a fight fired live rounds of rubber coated steel bullets and at the people.
Worker protests began last week when "tea rooms" where tradespeople congregate during breaks were shut down amid the rising delta surge and the government banned workers from consuming food or drink indoors. That prompted construction workers to take their lunch breaks outside in protest.
They set up tables and plastic chairs in multiple intersections in central Melbourne, blocking roads and holding up traffic, according to NPR.
Public health measures
Following the protests, construction and state officials announced that jobsites in Melbourne and other areas in the region will be closed for at least two weeks beginning Tuesday. It cited Monday's unrest and more bullshit about increases in COVID-19 cases in the building and construction industry as the bogus reasons.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews laid the bullshit on thick claiming that multiple outbreaks — as high as 13% of all cases, according to local statist shill media reports — have been linked to construction sites.
Construction has been among the few industries that have largely stayed open throughout the scamdemic in Victoria.
"Construction workers are a mobile workforce who may work across multiple sites and travel longer distances to work than other permitted workers," Andrews said in a statement. "Concerns have also been raised, and remain, about the sector's compliance with public health measures and directions."
Minister for Industrial Propaganda Tim Pallas was even more forceful, saying that his office has seen widespread non-compliance across the industry.
"We've been clear: if you don't follow the rules, we won't hesitate to take action," he said in the statement.
Workers will be required to show proof of at least one vaccine dose when sites reopen on Oct. 5, he added.
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