Stick Together

We go to the recent DUDC defend Unions Defend the CFMEU meeting held on the 14th of Oct to hear from a fighting Union perspective. We follow with the ceremony held on the 15th of October to commemorate the 56 year anniversary of  the West Gate Bridge Disaster. A disaster that changed work safe laws forever in this country because of the Unions..

 Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network. Our featured recording today comes from the 2016 Marxism Conference. It's a talk titled Hidden Histories: Mt Isa, presented by Tim Arnot and supplied to us by Socialist Alternative. Thanks to Socialist Alternative for making this recording available to S...

In Todays show we are joined by Thomas Costa, secretary of Unions NSW to discuss Unions NSW report, Working For Free - The New Normal. Unpaid overtime is now common place for the majority of the Australian workforce and things are only getting worse with artificial intelligence.https://unionsnsw.org.au/publication/working-for-free-the-new-normal/

With One Nation setting the agenda on the Immigration numbers in Australia spare a thought for those people who are baring the brunt of the One Nation assault - immigrant workers. Today we hear voices of people experienced in the special brand of exploitation reserved for the latest immigrants arriving on Australian Shores.  

Learn about QUT NTEU struggle to win better conditions, workloads and conditions in their current bargaining. Also travel back in time to February 2005, to hear an archival recording of Stick Together on former prime minister John Howard's industrial relations reforms.

Today we follow-up on the Victorian legislation designed to attack the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union hereThen we report on Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) in Victoria's fight against the State's largest disability housing homes provider Scope. On Friday 11/9, workers from 35 disability housing homes walked off the job and rallied outside Scope’s headquarters. Workers and their uni...

Stick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. Stick Together features interviews with workers, unionists, community campaigners and academics from right across Australia. This week's episode focuses on metro Melbourne council workers taking industrial action we hear from workers and the ASU.

It is with pride and pleasure that we bring PART 2 of an interview with an important First Nations figure in Health in Australia AND a staunch unionst, Dr Aunty Lyn McIness. Below is a link to the yarn between Amy and Aunty Lyn as it happened. The interview has been chopped up into parts to make it easier for you the listerner to navigate. The total legnth of the interview is 1 hour and 45 minutes...

Today we look at the significant attacks against workers and their Unions by the Victorian Government with legislation to attack RAFFWU the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union  and  Police raids on CFMEU organisers here in the past week. We follow with a report on industrial action on two of the leading University campus in Australia with a live report from the MelbUni action here.. But first a sta...

In today's programme we report from the second 24 hour stoppage by Victorian Allied Health Workers. But before we do that let's look at what the legacy media likes to call the Cost of Living Crisis. 

Coming up today, we'll have our regular Union News, looking at some of the industrial disputes happening around Australia. And our main interview today takes us to Western Australia's Pilbara. We're going to be talking about the recent industrial action by BHP workers at Port Hedland, and what it might mean for the future of unionism in one of Australia's most important mining regions. And we're j...

It is with pride and pleasure that we bring an interview with an important First Nations figure in Health in Australia AND a staunch unionst, Dr Aunty Lyn McIness. Below is the yarn between Amy and Aunty Lyn as it happened. The interview has been chopped up into parts to make it easier for you the listerner to navigate. The total legnth of the interview is 1 hour and 45 minutes. Who is Dr Aunty Ly...

CPSU Vic rally outside Victorian Parliament to Save VicHealth hereIn New South Wales rank and file members of the Nurses and Midwives Federation the ANMF rallied in George St Central Sydney 26th July expressing anger at AHPRA their accreditation body, for adopting, the IHRA definition of antisemitism here. Damian, an ANMF Vic member talks about his trip to help in Gaza earlier this year and the ne...

In this episode of Stick Together, Amy chats with fellow 3CR presenter about their experience of piece-rate conditions. 

Weighing up the economic value of the North West Hup versus environmental damage and loss of cultural assets. We hear from researcher Piers Verstegen here at a talk entitled the Endangered rock art of M urujuga - can it survive held at the Victoria State Library days before the start of a Federal Court case brought by the Friends of Australian Rock Art (FARA) against the Federal Labor decision to...

On June 17th the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) announced that it was adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism. Nick Hanna, an experience human rights lawyer and part of the Civil Liberties Defence Centre gave a briefing to health workers around the politics behind the AHPRA decision how it affects them at work

We have two reports today. One is a reflection on the Australian Education Union Vic (AEU) memberships' refusal to accept the Victorian Government pay offer despite the executive of Union's endorsement here. We follow with a look at AUKUS as a Trojan Horse for a take over of Port Kembla and the Central Coast of NSW by a US military base here.

On Tuesday June 16th Melbourne city was awash with the Blue of VAHPA  and the Red of MSAV. In an historic joint industrial action the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and the Medical Scientists Association took to the streets calling on the Victorian Government to pay the public health sector a fair wage comparable to other States in Australia. Stick Together was there

Stick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. Stick Together features interviews with workers, unionists, community campaigners and academics from right across Australia. ASU members fighting to change the award and conditions across the community sector. We hear from delegates and Union officials from the sector.

Join us for a special radiothon episode with hot off the press interviews with VAHPA and ASU on their battles for better wages and conditions. Donte to Radiothon! Call 9419 8377https://www.3cr.org.au/donate

Parks Victoria workers, after a year in negotiations have been forced to take action refusing an offer that would lock in lower pay and conditions, and put them behind colleagues in other parts of the Victorian public sector. The same level paid a lower rate. Adding insult to injury the executive branch of Parks Victoria are paid at the broader Victorian Public Service wage rates. Stick Together r...

Two issues this week with a common theme. First the Australian Nurses and Midwives Federation branch in South Australia the ANMF SA has stepped up industrial action after the returned Labor Government in South Australia were unable to negotiate better pay and conditions after returning to office.  We speak with CEO/ Secretary ANMF SA Elizabeth Darbars hereIn Victoria the Victorian Allied Health Pr...

Tim Gooden by Andy Urquhart On this weeks episode meet former Geelong Trades Hall Secretary, Tim Gooden. We chat and walk through GTH and chat about the towns local union history! Below are mediocre photos I took of the beautiful photos and artworks displayed around the building. Geelong Wool Combing Dispute John Howards Individual Contracts Mass Strike 2005Sandra Kranz Murals WA Solidarity and Un...

International Worker's Memorial Day is held on the 28th April. A sobering event marking the passing of workers who died from work related injuries. First we hear from some of the people who gathered to honour the dead, followed by the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen,  then from Lana Cormie, now part of a group with lived experience of loss working to change the system, and ending with some of the...

In this episode of Stick Together we chat with Tash Wark, Secretary of the ASU Vic/Tas Branch about the multi-council campaign they are running in metropolitan Melbourne. We also hear a statement given by Dave Ball in regional town Geelong on the war in Iran. Geelong is quickly becoming one of Australia's biggest defence industry towns with the Geelong Defence Alliance and Geelong on the Rise proj...