Today the Esplanade train station construction site in Perth was dead silent. The workers had called a strike, except that it wasn’t a “strike”, it was just everyone happening to chuck a sickie at exactly the same time.

I am becoming increasingly annoyed by these crazy militant unions and I suspect there’s a few others around town who agree. I mean, fair enough that they have a right to disagree with their employer, but there comes a point when too many strikes just won’t do anything, and the unions have already delayed the rail project quite seriously. There are now months of extra freeway disruptions that I will have to endure on my daily commute, and thousands of others are affected too.

I’d put up with it if they were being paid like third-world labourers. But there’s a massive skills shortage in construction, the labour market is tipped way in favour of workers, and it takes two years just to build a house. Something tells me that construction workers really don’t have it that bad.

I am thinking they should just get back to work and finish the damn train station!