Stick Together

Today we are finding out about the Indo Pacific Economic Framework, the latest free trade deal being hammered out between the US and thirteen Indo Pacific Nations including Australia. We hear from Arthur Stamoulis, from Trade Justice Education Fund, for an overview of IPEFand then from Patrick Wadell, from AFL - CIO Technology Institute, for a look at the issues in a digital world when it comes to...

Professor Michael Mann discusses how the new political leaders in the United States and Australia may give us hope to shift climate policy that has been left behind for so long. Join host James Brennan as they discuss these issues ahead of Michael's upcoming NZ and Australian tour. 

At the end of 2022 WRAW Women's Rights at Work Conference gave centre stage to some very interesting discussions around what could be called industrial issues. Giving an insight into how far ranging and inclusive the broader Union movement sees its role when it comes to organising.  Hyeseon Jeong from the Migrant Workers Centre  makes it plain that Migration policy is an industrial issue while Jam...

On the 25th of November there was a sea of orange on the steps of Victorian Parliament House as people gathered at the start of the walk Against Family Domestic Violence. The orange hats from Respect Victoria called for positive change. In today’s program we hear from people at the rally, speakers and an ASU rep who was part of the ground breaking eba negotiation that put domestic violence leave i...

Host James Brennan reflects back on the political year of 2022 with elections reaffirming a Labor governance across a lot fo the country and looking at some of the issues covered throughout the year. We also revisit one of the great interviews from earlier in the year with Kamala Emanuel on the impact of Row v Wade in Australia. 

The FIFA World Cup in Qatar has been built on the bones of thousands of exploited immigrant workers from poor countries. Today we explore the actual practicalities of those workers. Nigel Davies a now retired CFMEU official who was part of the red card for FIFA campaign talks about his experience of doing an OH&S walk through of the conditions for these workers housed in shipping containers in the...

This week I spoke with Ellise from the Renters and Housing Union about the work they have been doing to support tenants in the current housing crisis. We spoke about the challenges tenants face in a system skewed towards investors and the importance of building solidarity amongst members.

Leading the program today is the news from the Svitzer dispute. The threat by Svitzer the Danish multinational, with a near monopoly on towage in Australian ports, to lock out workers came to a head on Friday 18th of November with the Fair Work Commission pulling rank over the threat to the entire Australian economy of such an action.

Stick Together host James Brennan speaks with IPAN (Independent and Peaceful Australia Network) chairperson Annette Brownlie about the upcoming national conference. 

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.