Stick Together

The most recent Women's Right's at Work conference held at the Melbourne ETU offices in North Melbourne brought Union women from across industries to discuss issues of equity and fight back.  A representative of Australia Superannuation gave an enlightening analysis of how super at the moment is not working for women and then goes on to see how this could be altered. So first up why super isn’t de...

This week we hear from Debbie Uren from Union Assist about her work supporting injured workers in regional Victoria. We talk about the process of making a claim and how difficult the system is to navigate.

In this epsiode of Stick Together host James Brennan interviews Sam Wallman about his comic 'Our members be unlimited' a comic that explores the union movement in Australia from the past to current struggles with beautiful drawings. 

There is a perception that with the onslaught of the digital economy, precapious work and suppressed wages that young workers know little about fighting for a better working future through collective action. In today's program we put pay to this belief. We hear from Mayse an organiser for the newest Union on the block the Games Workers Union, from Lucas an organiser for RAFFWU the Retail and Fast...

I speak with Dave Fox from Bendigo Trades Hall about why he is organising a local rally and vigil for Julian Assange on October 8th and why it is so important to our democracy. And of course some union news. 

KEEP BLACK SPARK ALIGHT!Black Spark is an independent, volunteer-run bookshop, gallery, music and community space in Northcote, Naarm, dedicated to creativity, learning and liberation. In the isolation and despair of Naarm's first lockdown, an idea sparked between friends to transform disconnection into creativity. What began as a simple idea for a bookstore has now evolved into a project that rek...

We go to the Melbourne Big Steps Rally where Early Childhood Educators call for better pay, more respect and a restructure of their industry. Readings Bookshop workers are fighting for a living wage and we go to their most recent rally outside Readings Carlton Melbourne store.

Today we catch up with Mich-elle Myers, currently the Campaigns Director and Elected National Divisional Womens Representative of the Maritime Union of Australia Division of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union about the upcoming Women In Male Dominated Industries WIMDOI Conference. We follow with a look at the ABCC the Australian Building and Construction Commission. We fini...

This week we hear the voices of apprentices as the Young Workers Centre gears up for its campaign for better outcomes for apprentices and we catch with Wil Stracke, assistant secretary at Victorian Trades Hall, as she joined other Union women on the streets of Melbourne to talk about the pay gap for women on Unequal Pay Day on Monday 29th August. Pay Gap Calculator here 

This week we find out about the win for Downer employees at the Newport facility and go to the most recent solidarity rally outside Readings Carlton Store in Melbourne in support of fair pay for Readings workers.

Exerts taken from a live panel, this episode features speakers from a fundraiser for Stick Together that took place in July 2022.The speakers Zelda Grimshaw speaks about blockade Australia and Anthony Kelly speaks about the Melbourne activist legal service. As well as general discussion around building a left wing movement on climate action. 

Two reports this week. Protected action at ports around Australia as workers from all three Unions operating towage services at Svitzer push back against the company’s move to slash their wages and conditions. While on the streets outside Readings independent booksellers, workers represented by RAFFWU are calling for wage rise and no more union busting tactics.

We hear stories from Penny Fitzgerald, a worker from the male dominated automotive industry, about her experiences in the 1970s and 80s selling cars in country Victoria.

The question we are looking at is who decides what our lived environments, our cities, should be like and do working people have a choice about them or is it all about big money, developers, and the expression of power through government policy.  

Early this month workers at Better Read Than Dead, a bookshop in Newtown Sydney had their first EBA ratified at the Fair Work Commission. This ground-breaking agreement has ramifications for other retail workers in Australia. We hear about their struggle.  We follow up with a speech by Dave Noonan, National Secretary of the CFMMEU Construction Division, in support of Julian Assange on July 3rd, Ju...

Kamala Emanuel is an abortion rights activist and doctor who has been fighting and delivering for women across the country in this interview she speaks with James Brennan about the overturning of Row v Wade and waht impact that might have in Australia. 

We hear analysis from economist Alison Penngton about how the pandemic has impacted women's participation in the workforce and what we could do to change it. Plus union news focusing on women in the workforce.

Climate Activists from direct action colllective Blockade Australia were targeted by new anti-protest laws in NSW, with activists spied on and arrested for planning event sin Sydney at the end of June 2022. These critical unpaid workers are facing significant threats from state and fderal governments, with new laws featring huge fines and prison sentences being legislated in Tasmania and Victoria...

Positive outcomes for injured workers is always put against the premiums payed by employers. We go to Injured Workers Day event at Victorian Trades Hall and hear from injured workers and some of the actions by unions to move toward a better future.

Wage suppression has been going on for 40 years. The issue of wages and standard of living has reached a critical point as workers demand that profits are being gained at the expense of a fair deal.

On this week's epsidoe of Stick Together host James Brennan interviews long time socialist and climate activist Alex Bainbridge about what the Labor Government climate policy looks like and how we can push for further change.

This week we hear from Tanya McConvell has she recalls her stay amongst the people responsible for the Wavehill Walk-off at the time. 

This week we hear from Jacqui, a local woman who lost her husband in a workplace accident. We also hear from Yorta Yorta woman Dr Mishel McMahon speaking at the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Conference about what care, community and labour mean to her as a first nations person.

Two reports today the first about journalists and their safety in the field as we mark the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh here followed by a look at the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector with the release of a new report Meeting Skills Shortages in an Expanding ECEC Industry here. 

On this week's episode host James Brennan interviews Victorian Socialist candidate Jerome Small about what it is like for a socialist to run in a federal election and to hear what it's like on the ground heading into the federal election.