The workers at the "sinking ship" Hazelwood power station have not gone quietly.
Led by a pipes and drums band all the way from Geelong, 223km west of Morwell, a group of past and present workers marched from the plant to the car park.
There, an AC/DC cover band awaited at a union-organised event.
Inside the station gates, Engie held its own event, shielded from public view by tarps emblazoned with the French company's name.
Dozens of hard hats now hang from a perimeter fence, over a sign that reads "Hanging our hats on a worker transition".
"It started a couple of weeks ago, a couple of blokes who were leaving hung their hates up inside and we decided to move it to the gate," Hazelwood worker of 30 years Rob Ortel told AAP.
Workers said Hazelwood had been a good place to work, where they earned enough to provide for their families.
But now, that certainty had gone and many of the younger workers are in limbo until they get word on a worker transfer scheme.
Husband and father-of-three Dave Johnson transferred to Hazelwood from Yallourn power station in February 2016 on the promise of a five year contract.
The contractor is a third generation power worker and sole breadwinner for his family.
"They were having job cuts at Yallourn so I volunteered to save redundancies over there," he told reporters at Hazelwood on Friday.
"But unfortunately I jumped on a sinking ship, unbeknownst, but that's the way life goes, you've just got to soldier on and see what you can do."
John van Eyk and his son Nick both worked at Hazelwood, 32 years and eight years respectively.
John says he'll retire, but Nick is facing an uncertain future and wants remain in the industry.
"I have to start working straight away, I've got to pay the mortgage," he told AAP.
The final two generators were powered down on Wednesday with crews to clock off for the last time at 7am on Saturday - ending 52 years of power production.
The station's 450 staff and about 300 contractors now face an uncertain future in the Latrobe Valley, but a handful will be kept on for the decommissioning process.
The state government announced earlier this month about 150 workers at AGL's Loy Yang A coal mine will be made redundant and their jobs given to retrenched staff from Hazelwood.
The local council has called on the state and federal governments to do more to create jobs in the region.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has worked with the state Labor government on its $266 million transition package, but on Friday called on for the federal government to match the funding.
