Brisbane Brought To Its Knees As CityCat Skippers Prove They Weren't Fucken Bluffing About Going On Strike

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STOP THE BOATS: The lifeblood of the Queensland capital, the iconic CityCat ferry network, temporarily ceased operations this morning.

All CityCats, KittyKats and KangaKats were docked between 8am and 10am, with services to "progressively return" throughout the rest of the day.

The skippers and deckhands of Brisbane's most iconic river transportation service have proven they aren't fucking around when it comes to the ongoing enterprise agreement negotiations.

They had warned that something like this was going to happen, but their demands were ignored.

Sadly, this now means Brisbane must be brought to it's knees through cunning industrial action.

Two hours with no CityCats. On a beautiful late-July Friday no less. The riverside pubs will be deprived of merry patrons. The CBD will be rocked by a sudden wave of work-from-home requests.

Ironically, with the Liberals now in power at both a state and council level, they have finally stopped the boats.

Commuters were provided with a week's forewarning before this protected industrial action, but it still appears that some inner-city residents were blindsided by this strike - and had to catch an Uber to their nearest footbridge.

Tourists have been left stranded and will now miss out on their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a 50 cent boat ride down one of the mightiest rivers in the world.

A spokesperson for RiverCity Ferries said they were "extremely disappointed that unions and employees have chosen to disrupt to the public in this way"

However, given the fact that the crews of these noble vessels are represented by the same union that shut down the entire Brisbane wharfs in the Australian waterfront dispute of 1998, it doesn't appear likely that a passive aggressive press release will be enough to resolve this log of claims.