Acknowledgement of Country//

Headlines:

• Protest action ahead of the election

• Australian-made weapons components reaching Israel via third countries

• Experts urge an overhaul of Victoria Police oversight system

• New report reveals evictions of Victorian renters due to unpaid rent have increased to five times the 2021 rate

Mohammed Aruri, a member of the executive of the General Union of Palestinian Workers, joins us from Ramallah to speak about Palestinian workers' struggle across the West Bank and Gaza, conditions since October 2023, and connections with the international labour movement. You can read Palestinian trade unions' May Day 2025 statement - 'No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid', to which GUPW is a signatory - on the BDS Movement's website.//

We hear Pauline Vetuna and Leilani Fuimaono's segment for 3CR's Disability Day 2022 ''F**K Work''. They speak on centering disabled REST in labour rights and movements for liberation. In this clip, they speak on the joys of Indigneous anti-capitalist futures, and rest being central to Disability Justice. You can listen back to the whole segment on https://www.3cr.org.au/disabilityday2022//

Teresa Hetherington is a community-based aged care worker, a union activist and United Workers Union Aged Care Delegate. Today, Teresa joins us to talk about rights in feminised workforces such as care and support work for May Day. The care sector, such as aged care, home care, disability support and child care, is a women dominated industry and includes a high number of workers with migrant backgrounds. Despite the importance of this work that provides critical support to our communities, it is work that remains systematically undervalued. In our discussion this morning, Teresa will bring us up to date on current working conditions, the fight for fair pay and more.//

Jeanine Hourani, an organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement and member of the Mask Off Maersk committee, discusses the role of international worker solidarity in the Mask Off Maersk campaign. This campaign is enforcing a people's arms embargo on Israel as it continues its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, with solidarity actions including significant trade union participation underway at logistics chokepoints worldwide. Find out more about the campaign, including how to take action from wherever you are, here.//