Things getting prickly in NSW.....note to NSW Government.....you can make it mandatory on public transport, just create a new CHO order.
As a bus strike looms in NSW, the state's transport minister is pushing drivers to understand why they can't give them what they want.
NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance reminded Sydney bus drivers, promising to strike for 48 hours next week unless the state government moves to enforce mask wearing on public transport, that they don’t have the power to force people to do so.
“The union I would hope today will understand we don’t have the advice and I explained it to them when I met with them yesterday, to fine people or to deny people a service because they haven’t got a mask on,” Mr Constance told Today.
“We have got the advice to encourage people and ask people to wear them and I think the commuters are responding and that’s what we continue to see every day.”
The NSW Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) sent a letter to Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week, promising to stop work for 48 hours from next Monday unless the coronavirus measures are enforced.
Perhaps the CHO will make new orders in a timely fashion on Sunday lol