PPTEU Victoria and other unions come together to honour the 54th anniversary of the #WestGateBridge collapse
🗓 Date: Tuesday, 15th October
🕦 Time: 11:30 AM
📍 Location: Meet under the bridge on Douglas Parade, #Spotswood

Just before lunch on 15 October 1970, the West Gate Bridge suddenly groaned.
A storm of rust flakes peeled off weathered steel. The bridge fell away beneath their feet. Minutes later, 35 workers were dead.
http://www.westgatebridge.org/

#constructionworkers #workingclasshistory

New at my Patreon... I hadn't been to the western suburb of Spotswood for 13 years, but a review promised Balkan-style ćevapi - and they were worth the trek:

Dateline Melbourne: Ćevapi of Spotswood https://www.patreon.com/posts/93476099

#Melbourne #Food #Balkan #Cuisine #Spotswood

15th of October remember Australia’s worst construction industry accident, its 35 men killed and its 18 survivors, the families, and friends that it all affected and all the brave workers who risked everything to recover the dead and injured.

Assemble Douglas Parade #Spotswood 11.30 am.

Speaker.

11.50am minute’s silence.

Refreshments after the ceremony at the #PiratesTavern rear 82 Nelson Place #Williamstown

- #WestgateBridge Memorial Committee

https://www.westgatebridge.org/