Tradies pack up toolboxes

TRADIES on the $1.4 billion Jewel project have been told to take another job if they can as the site was turned on its head yesterday.

For the past week tradies and subcontractors have put pressure on builder Multiplex and owner Yuhu Group to explain why more than 100 workers were sacked. Hundreds of others walked off the site yesterday.

They wanted clarity around contracts as Yuhu Group changes its designs for the three-tower beach hotel and apartments.

With no answers yesterday, workers were told by union officials it was “safer to take the tool boxes out now and if you can, take a job”, a tradie told the Bulletin.

“It’s hard because we are two months away from Christmas, we don’t know if we have work on this job or if we should be trying to get another job,” he said.

“Blokes have knocked back other work to stay on this job and now this is happening.

“And there is not enough