As union says find new jobs

work out there for all these blokes to pick something else up tomorrow.”

About 800 tradies met with union officials and Multiplex in the basement of the project, yesterday before the members voted to strike.

Soon after, tradies spent three hours wheeling their toolboxes off the site and lifting them into their utes.

Jackie Drescher’s husband Al was one of the 800 to leave.

“When they take their tools off-site you know this could go really bad,” she said.

“This could be two days, this could be two months.”

Mrs Drescher, who has four children, three who still live at home, said while the workers looked tough they were scared about their future.

“It impacts us that when it comes to Tuesday next week, and I go to do my budget, I don’t know how many days of income I will actually have,” she said. “At the end of the day they are really impacting Gold Coast families that are already doing it tough with the high fuel prices and everything else.

“Now they’re saying let’s give them another blow.”