Yallourn power workers camp out in working conditions protest CMFEU members have set up a makeshift home outside the Yallourn power station. LOCKED-out power workers have vowed to camp outside Victoria's third-largest plant for months in protest against working conditions. More than 30 Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union members set up a makeshift home outside Yallourn power station yesterday. They vowed to stay until EnergyAustralia reopened talks which failed on Friday, leading 75 workers being locked out of the site. CFMEU mining division secretary Greg Hardy said the protest could last months. A food tent has been put up on public land across from the station and protesters brought a trailer of firewood. The company has offered a 6 per cent pay rise; however, workers said conditions were the real issue. "We will be here as long as it takes," one worker said. This is not a dispute about pay; it is a dispute because they refuse to give us a say in our working conditions. EnergyAustralia group executive manager Michael Hutchinson warned protesters against stopping other workers from entering the site. Police are investigating a fire that broke out after workers were ordered off the site. The dispute is estimated to have cost EnergyAustralia $10 million so far.