Today thousands of CFMEU members across Australia took the day off work to march in solidarity with retail and hospitality workers who will see their Sunday pay packets cut as a result of the Fair Work Commission’s recent ruling on penalty rates.

In typical fashion, the event proved less of a peaceful protest than an unseemly imbroglio as belligerent union members swamped city streets and major high-rises, bringing hundreds of private businesses to a standstill and harassing our greatest living Prime Minister.