Workers Power

This week we talk to Josh Cullinan, Secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union about the campaign at Readings, where the boss is reneging on a promised wage increase. Interview starts at 29:58 Links to what we talked about ALS stops taking new clients Court hearing to halt Santos drilling Screws go on strike in support of killing First Nations people USyd workers on strike for the fourth...

This week we talk to Workers Power regular Jayden from Anti-Poverty Network QLD about what we know so far about the new Workforce Australia system and how we can deal with it. Links to what we talked about NT makes deal with remote community for increased self-determination Despite abolition of cashless card, thousands remain on income management National childcare strike Australia Post workers wi...

This week we spoke with Martin from Young Workers Hub about their campaign against the Mantle Group.

his week we talk to Phil Monsour about his upcoming Songs of Working Life fundraiser to support the medevac refugees who have finally been released from detention. We also talked about Phil's trip to Chicago to visit the Labor Notes conference. In our second hour we talk to Neil from the Brisbane Labour History Association to talk about their upcoming tour of the Dutton Park cemetary and its worki...

This week we talked to Shane Howard, lead vocalist of Goanna, about their music and their politics, along with some live music in the studio. Goanna is celebrating 40 years since the release of Spirit of Place with a tour across the continent. Outro song: Solid Rock by Goanna

This week we talk to Workers Power regular Andrew from the South East Queenland Union of Renters about their upcoming anti-eviction blockade.

This week we talk to Greg from the Brisbane Labour History Association about the working class origins of Rugby League and how class struggle has shaped the sport over the years. Links to what we talked about Aboriginal Tent Embassy Caretaker counters Uluru Statement Rio Tinto sits down with Traditional Owners New South Wales public sector workers to strike Ipswich city council workers take action...

This week we talked to Greens MP Stephen Bates about his recent parliamentary victory and what he plans to do in the role. Interview starts at 39:22

This week we talk to Jade and Andy from the CFMEU about the aggression faced by their union from the ABCC.

This week we talk to Workers Power regular Jayden from the Anti-Poverty Network about the campaign against the cashless welfare card. In the second hour we have a follow up interview with Virginia from the Brisbane Labour History Association about the history of the punk scene in Brisbane, with a focus on the late Chris Bailey of The Saints. Interviews start at 6:55 and 32:18 Outro song: Econ Sopr...

We bring you on the ground at the Labour Day march this year as we listen to the union chants and talk to unionists and activists about Labour day and the labour movement. I sure hope you like bagpipes. Outro Song: Solidarity Forever - Phil Monsour

On this week's episode Bill and Dan chat with Linn from Dare To Struggle Film Festival . They are also met with a connundrum for this week's Scallywag. Interview starts at 17:19

This week we talk to Alison from the Brisbane Labour History Association about the fight in the 70s to protect the Great Barrier Reef from mining. This fight was an early example of solidarity between environmental groups and unions, as well as unions taking industrial action to protect the environment. Interview begins at 7:29

This week we talked to Trent from Last Quokka , an anti-fascist punk band "from the most isolated city on the planet" about their music, their politics, and their (at the time) upcoming tour. Interview starts at 29:11 Outro song: Colony by Last Quokka

This week we talked to Decrim QLD about the struggle to decriminalise sex work in Queensland and the problems facing sex workers in the current system. Interview starts at 38:45

This week we talk to Jeff Rickertt from the Brisbane Labour History Association . In the leadup to International Working Women's Day we talked about the campaigns of the telephonists' union in the 1970s and 80s. Telephonists were the workers, mostly women, who operated the manual telephone exchanges across Australia for the Postmaster General's Department (PMG), the largest of all Commonwealth dep...

This week we talk to Virginia Clarke from the Brisbane Labour History Association . Virginia has had a lifetime of rank-and-file activism in unions and the Labor Party. In the late 70s and early 80s Virginia was also involved in the Brisbane punk scene, which, like the punk explosion the world over, was a movement of working class youth. In Brisbane, the punk scene displayed a particularly sharp e...

This week we chat with Jarrod Abbot from TWU about Sunbus workers out on the grass to force Sunbus back to the negotiating table with a fair deal. Links to what we talked about NSW police must ask Indigenous status Ipswich waste workers win QTU prevents extension of work year ACTU threatens strike to improve covid measures Patrick Terminals threatens to half capacity during supply chain crunch Wil...

This week we talk to Neil Frost from the Brisbane Labour History Association about the Red North, that rebellious period of North Queensland history which began in the 1920s and culminated in the election of Communist Fred Paterson to the Queensland Parliament as the Member for Bowen. In those years the North was known as a centre of radicalism, with militant strikes, campaigns against fascism, mo...

This week we talk to Iswed from SEQUR and CARF about SEQUR's ongoing campaign against Little Real Estate, who left one of SEQUR's members without a working bathroom for months. We also talk about the work CARF does to counter the anti-vax movement. Links to what we talked about Vigil held to remember women who died in Melbourne prison NT kids education program hailed a success Ipswich waste worker...

This week we talk to Robyn from Save Our Bowlo about the campaign to stop the destruction of the East Brisbane Bowls Club, a community and arts centre which the council has deemed "underused and unnattractive". We also talk to Jeff from the Brisbane Labour History Association , about the history of the revoltionary union, the IWW, and the union organising it did in Queensland (starts at 30:40).

This week we talked to Andy, organiser with the CFMEU , about the work he does in the construction industry to fight for workers' rights. Links to what we talked about First Nations people with Native Title determination RMIT employees get backpay Geelong Library workers win Teacher shortages due to bad working conditions Teachers to defy order to scrap strike Woolies workers in NZ win

This week it's win after win, spit hoods are banned in SA, SEQUR shut down Little Real Estate for the day, Country Road were cowed by the strike, Modi was cowed by the farmers' blockade, and that's not even all of them. Links to what we talked about Spit hoods banned SEQUR pickets real estate agency Blockade Australia finishes blockading coal port Country Road strike victorious FedEx workers on st...

This week we talk to Shae from Young Workers Hub to talk about the work they do supporting young workers to assert their rights in the workplace. Links to what we talked about Anti-vax counter-protest Qld Rental Crisis Gig - presented by Workers Power Police killing of Stanley Russell Protesters hit Sydney streets on anniversary of Gomeroi man's death in custody SEQUR picket this Friday Toll wareh...

This week we talk to Duncan Hart from Socialist Alternative about his research into The Proletarian Review, a communist publication from the 1920s in Melbourne. In our second half Duncan stays on and Iswedd from Anarchist Communists Meanjin joins us to talk about an upcoming counter-protest to the anti-vax movement. Links to what we talked about The Proletarian Review on Reason in Revolt Campagin...