Concrete Gang - 26th June 1977 program

• Statement from Norm Gallagher re wages indexation guidelines:
  PPE, sick pay, working in the rain & back-and-forth with the Arbitration Commissioner.

• Log of Claims Report: demands & commentary on $30 wage claims & a variety of tactics, working with different building unions & joint campaign committees in each state. 

• Joint Campaign across all building trade unions from 17th June. The papers say there’s no rank-and-file involvement, but the reality is that everybody supports this log of claims. Discussions of who’s involved.

• SONG: Streets of Forbes by the Black Velvet Band, Recorded Live at H.M. Prison Pentridge, with a dedication from Willy ‘to all the boys in the nick’. 

• Update on carpenters and other trades now involved in the dispute for extra $30 and conditions.

• Report on the Coronet Modular Homes Dispute in Ballarat, which began with a site inspection from the Painters Union in November 1976. Updates on the saga with the company, including union meetings with management, unprecedented worker dismissals, a win from ETU members, unprecedented dismissals of Ballarat Trades and Labour Council, and the 15 workers still to be reinstated.

• Numbers come back from recent union election, counter to the mainstream media narrative.

• SONG: Bound for South Australia' by The Cobbers

• Listener contributions: Follow-up on recent Concrete Gang report on General Motors-Holden threatening to sack 600 workers. Temporary settlement, transferring workers from Dandenong to Fisherman's Bend, lowering the retirement age, and more. Some important considerations to think about.

• A callout for singers, and finishing with a contribution from Charlie from Abbotsford, with 'The Abbotsford Shuffle'.
  

Presenters: ‘Mario’, Willie’, ’Joe', 'Bruce', and more

Also featuring: Charlie from Abbotsford

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