Bacchus Marsh Green Ban

Building workers are set to withdraw their labour to ensure Bacchus Marsh's Avenue of Honour remains roundabout-free.

VicRoads wants to remove nine trees and build a roundabout on the historic Avenue for the Western Highway Realignment Project.

But the proposed Woolpack Rd extension, which VicRoads insists is the best option to remove heavy truck traffic from Bacchus Marsh’s main roads, has raised the ire of local residents who have alerted the union movement to the fight. Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Brian Boyd said union workers were prepared to take industrial action by refusing to work on the Woolpack Rd section.

"We passed a resolution at a recent executive meeting calling for a rethink on the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour by VicRoads," he said. "Historically the trade union movement is opposed to wars but that still doesn’t stop us from paying due respect to our war dead.

"The Trades Hall Council represents 40,000 building workers statewide and we would consider looking at some sort of industrial action if necessary."

National Trust Conversation manager Paul Roser welcomed the union's pledge.

"The Greens locally also made a commitment to seek an alternative route for this project so we will be going back to them now they are so prominent in the balance of power federally," he said.