AWP-80-The Sydney Green Bans

In the early to mid-1970s the NSW Builders Labourers' Federation imposed 'Green Bans' in Sydney. These bans were imposed by the builders labourers employed to construct t office-block skyscrapers, shopping centres and luxury apartments The builder's labourers refused to work on projects that were environmentally or socially undesirable. The Green Bans movement was the first of its type in the world.