03-25-2020, 06:37 PM
(03-25-2020, 06:08 PM)clasher Wrote:(03-25-2020, 03:52 PM)tomh009 Wrote: And construction work mostly has substantial social distancing already.
I've worked a bunch of construction jobs, from new construction to industrial maintenance. There's likely little chance of running water at most new construction for hand washing and the shitters are usually more disgusting than what one would find at the end of a music festival. Sick pay is non-existent in the building trades so workers have a lot of incentive to come to work sick too. The only time I could really be doing physical distancing at work is when I'm welding something alone or doing connecting on the structural steel, but we still all eat together in a small trailer, or if you're lucky a half-finished room on the floors below. On a tall building too everyone packs into the lifts at the start of the shift so there's really no way to avoid being in close contact with other workers.
Most of that seems pretty easily remedied by improvements in facilities and changes in habits. The lack of sick pay is a surprise to me (I assume this would be for non-union labour?). If the developers want to keep the government from shutting them down, they'd best get to it ....