Episodes

Stick Together - Episode 201403190830

19 Mar 2014
Coverage of the March in March
Jack Barry

Strike at Super Amart; campaign for 36 hour working week

12 Mar 2014
Interview about strike at warehouse of Super Amart in Melbourne, with NUW delegate Chad Wyatt. Then we talk about construction workers' fight to reduce working hours to 36 per week, with Dean Mighell, former ETU secretary.
Diana Beaumont, Chad Wyatt, Dean Mighell

IWD special protest songs

5 Mar 2014
Protest songs from women activists with Lynn Beaton
Annie McLoughlin & Lynn Beaton

Workers' control and cooperatives

26 Feb 2014
Exploring forms and types of workers control and co-operatives in Australia and Venezuela.
Felix Gazmanov, Ewan Robertson, Antony McMullen, Dave Kerin

Jobs and democracy crisis

19 Feb 2014
Ged Kearney gives Abbott government low jobs score & Napthine silencing laws get the thumps down from civil rights lawyers
Annie McLoughlin

Toyota to close Victorian factory

12 Feb 2014
We discuss Toyota's decision to close its Victorian assembly plant in 2017 – marking the end of car assembly in Australia. Interviews about job losses, government subsidies, allegations of Toyota's international union-busting and more.
Diana Beaumont, Nixon Apple, Andrew Beer, Jiselle Hanna, Anita Chan

The Media Attacks Unions

5 Feb 2014
The past week has seen several prominent reports in the media attacking trade unions. We seek out a response from unions
Jack Barry, Luke Hilikari, Campaigns Coordinator and Trades Hall, Tim Gooden General Secretary of the The Trades and Labour Council, Geelong, and Dave Kerin, long time union activist and campaigner.

Unions in a troubled work landscape

29 Jan 2014
Unions have renewed relevance in a trouble work landscape in Aust
Annie McLoughlin

Direct Action

22 Jan 2014
New laws threaten democratic protest
Annie McLoughlin

Percy Brookfield and the radical history of Broken Hill (part 2)

15 Jan 2014
Interview with author Paul Adams about the extraordinary political life of Percy (Jack) Brookfield, unionist, anti-war campaigner and radical parliamentarian from Broken Hill (1875 – 1921).
Diana Beaumont, Paul Adams

Percy Brookfield and the radical history of Broken Hill (part 1 of 2)

8 Jan 2014
The extraordinary political life of Percy (Jack) Brookfield, unionist, anti-war campaigner and radical parliamentarian from Broken Hill (1875 – 1921). We also discuss the radical union history of Broken Hill.
Diana Beaumont, Paul Adams

Unionism and Democracy underthreat in Australia

1 Jan 2014
Ged Kearney, ACTU President, speaks
Annie McLoughlin

Mandela speech to Aust Unionists 1990

18 Dec 2013
Mandela speaks at Melb Town Hall after his release from prison
Annie McLoughlin

Jobs at Holden and Qantas

11 Dec 2013
We discuss the future of Holden and Australian manufacturing, with former AMWU economist, Nixon Apple. Then Lisa White, National Assistant National Secretary ASU, talks about how working conditions differ between Qantas and its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar.
Diana Beaumont, Nixon Apple, Linda White

Disability and work

4 Dec 2013
focus on disabled workers fight for paid work
Annie McLoughlin