Yeah, it has been interesting to watch the Vic protests that were kicked off by requiring the tradies to be vaccinated or lose their jobs ........... and their union accepting it
Quite different to the US where the unions have marked out the right to choose (California is requiring all school kids to be vaccinated, but not the teachers)
The CFMEU were actually against mandatory jabs...........
Also, from the Age:
......... while the CFMEU construction division is publicly regarded as a militant left-wing union, over the past 15 years its politics and practices have morphed.
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Many are, in fact, fiercely anti-communist and right-wing, with their families having fled Tito’s Yugoslavia. One Setka supporter attended a stewards’ meeting last year with a sticker on his car of a Croatian army division which fought alongside the Nazis in the 1940s.
And among these groups, anti-vax sentiment is rife.
But the protests following that initial gathering* have been orchestrated and attended by the usual gang of anti-vaxxer, anti-lockdown, right wing, neo-nazi, "fake news" shouty, Qanon, agitator fruitcake thugs who have been stirring up trouble for a year now, and all deserve to be hosed down by water cannons filled with capsicum spray...
That applies to anyone who seeks to legitimise the so-called protest fluffers disguised as "independent media" in Rukshan, or former neo-nazi buddy and wife beater Avi Yemini.........
Live streaming a protest you're attending is not journalism.
*It should be noted that among the CFMEU protesters on that first day, there were many of the serial protesters already in attendance - one young lady I recognised is always on the front line.