Video: Thousands join Grocon picket line in morning rally
Video: Melbourne construction workers rally at dawn. timgooden/YouTube.
About 2000 building workers rallied at Grocon's central Melbourne site again this morning to support the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union in its dispute with the company.
Police used horses and capsicum spray to violently break up the picket on August 28 but pulled back when building workers from other city sites began to arrive.
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