: StickTogetherShow

Stick Together 19.05.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700

Au Loongyu editor of the China Labour Net website provides analysis of the 40-day strike by Hong Kong dock workers. Then Monizuman Masum, General Secretary of the National Democratic Labour Federation in Bangladesh gives a report on the tragic Rana Plaza collapose, which has killed over 1,000 workers and counting.

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Stick Together 12.05.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 12 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700

In June last year, Barry O’Farrel’s government made some massive changes to workers compensation in NSW. Workers in NSW, except firies, police and paramedics, are now struggling with a workers compensation scheme that hangs many of them out to dry when they’re at their most vulnerable. We’re going to hear from Peter Tully, a coordinator of the Injured Workers Support Network in central NSW and an injured worker. In the second half of the show we catch up on the latest funding cuts to hit Australian universities and have a chat with assistant secretary of the tertiary education union Matt McGowan to hear what’s being done about it.

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Stick Together 05.05.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700

This week’s show features three speakers recorded at the SEARCH conference in Sydney: Pat Ranald from AFTINET and Andrew Dettmer AMWU speaking against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement; and Maree O’Halloran, director of the Welfare Rights Centre NSW speaking about the need to increase the New Start allowance and minimum wage.

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Stick Together 28.04.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:00:00 -0700

Visa conditions for foreign technicians filming sports/entertainment events; Live Theatre/Local Work campaign; fate of journalists facing contempt of court; deal with Disney for local film technicians.

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Stick Together 21.04.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:30:00 -0700

The first solar hot water system was installed in Melbourne this week as part of the Earthworker Cooperative’s plan to build a worker-run, worker-owned factory in the LaTrobe valley. I caught up with project officer Dave Kerin. Also, quick chat with Karen Batt, secretary of the Vic branch of the CPSU, about the deal that’s been struck with Vic Legal Aid and the Vic state government after 18 months of EBA negotiations. First though, we head to NSW national parks where recreational hunting is now permitted with Public Service Association industrial officer Geo Papas and OHS officer Shay Deguara.

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Stick Together 14.04.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:30:00 -0700

The cuts continue in QLD. This week we hear from Queensland Nurses Union secretary Beth Mohle about the proposal to shut down sexual health services in Brisbane. Later on in the show, we’ll be chatting with Adam, a community services worker, and Australian Services Union organiser Leon Wiegard about a continuing dispute with MIND Australia over the passing on of equal pay funding to the workers it’s intended for.

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Stick Together 07.04.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:00:00 -0700

This week we discuss the inequities of superannuation with Eva Cox, social policy commentator. Then Michael Thomson, NTEU branch president, and student activist Patrick Harrison report from the staff strike at Sydney university.

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Stick Together 31.03.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0700

In this program we investigate the legal options for the pool of low paid workers in Australia exploited by unscrupulous employers. We follow this with a report on the strike of 15 guest workers in New York employed by McDonalds.

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Stick Together 24.03.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0700

Today’s program looks at one of Australia’s oldest unions the Australian Worker’s Union (AWU) and its connection to the Labor Pary. At its February National Conference the AWU gave full suppot to the return of the Labor Party in the September Federal election. We look at the AWU’s track record as a union and its close association with the Labor Party.

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Stick Together 17.03.13

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0700

Victorian paramedics are currently engaged in a struggle with the state government over pay and conditions. I caught up with paramedic Danny Hill and the secretary of the Ambulance Employees Association Steve McGhie. Also, checking in on the situation for health workers in QLD suffering under the most extensive public sector cuts in the states history. We spoke to Peter a worker and delegate based in Brisbane.

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Stick Together 10.03.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0700

A small number of unions are supporting The Greens party, because they believe The Greens better represent workers’ interests. This week Stick Together interviewed Adam Bandt, federal Greens MP for Melbourne, and Peter Marshall, National & Victorian Branch Secretary, United Firefighters Union Of Australia, who supports The Greens.

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Stick Together 03.03.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0800

To celebrate International Women’s Day Stick Together speaks to three women about their work in unions, why they became politically active, and what issues they believe are important for women’s progress economically and socially today.

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Stick Together 24.02.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0800

Negotiating with Baillieu or upping the industrial ante: What will save Victoria’s Public Schools? That’s the question on this week’s Stick Together. We speak to Australian Education Union – Victoria Deputy Branch President Justin Mullaly and Epping Secondary College teacher, former AEU Council member and member of left wing faction Teachers and ES Alliance (TESA) Norrian Rundle to hear their opinions.

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Stick Together 10.02.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0800

Interview with Ged Kearney, ACTU President, about employers’ submissions to Fair Work Australia’s review into penalty rates. Then Dave Kerin introduces the Earthworker Co-operative plan to manufacture solar hot water units under workers’ control (donate at earthworkercooperative.com). Then Ralph Edwards, Victorian president of the Construction and General Division of the CFMEU, talks about two court cases testing the Victorian government’s anti-union building code.

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Stick Together 03.02.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0800

Unions and social justice. This program includes interviews with Father Bob McGuire, social activist, and Dean Mighell, secretary of the Electrical Trade Unions, on social justice and the role of unions.

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Stick Together 27.01.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0800

This week: new Secretary of the Health Services Union No. 3 Branch Craig McGregor. McGregor led a successful rank and file ticket (Clean Sweep) in union elections in November 2012, promising to put control of the union back into the hands of members. Also Bob Carnegie, long time union activist (MUA, BLF) who ran the 9-week community picket at the Queensland Children’s Hospital and is now facing serious legal charges at the behest of employer Abigroup.

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Stick Together 20.01.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:30:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we tackle unpaid work and the gendered division of labour and talk about accountability of super funds. Associate Professor Lyn Craig discusses the gendered division of labour in Australia in light of the Federal Government’s decision to move tens of thousands of single parents off the parenting payment and on to the dole. We also hear from Crikey senior write Andrew Crooke on super funds and accountability.

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Stick Together 13.01.2013

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0800

Interview with Duncan Pegg, Industrial Officer at the National Union of Workers, about the strike and community picket at Dairy Farmers milk factory in Crestmead, Queensland. And report from Alan Maass, editor of socialistworld.org, about 1,000 co-ordinated protests against Wal-Mart in 46 American states on 23 November 2012.

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Stick Together 23.12.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0800

On the program today we’ll be talking about industrial rights for sex workers, sexual rights for people with disabilities and how they connect. We’ll be hearing from Ellie, a sex worker who services clients with disabilities, and David Heckendorf, a Phd candidate at Australian National University in disability law. David is an advocate for the sexual rights of people with disabilities.

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Stick Together 16.12.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0800

A report on funding cuts to education by Liberal-coalition governments in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Featuring interviews with: Maurie Mulheron, President of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, Mary Bluett, President of the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union, Kevin Bates, President of the Queensland Teachers Union and David Zyngier, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.

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Stick Together 09.12.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0800

On today’s program we look at working conditions for teachers in the private vocational education sector in Victoria. Today more students are enrolled at private RTOs than TAFE. What impact does the privatization of vocational education have on the people who teach? We’ll hear from two English as a second language teachers, Patrick and Bob (not their real names) and from an Industrial Officer with the Victorian branch of the National Tertiary Education Union Rhidian Thomas.

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Stick Together 02.12.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 05:48:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together, we profile two young unionists Alex Sproule and Keelia Fitzpatrick about the state of unionism in Austraila today, their personal stories and politics, and their view of global unionism and the future for the Australian working class. Youths suffer some of the worst exploitation in the workplace, being more likely to be in insecure work and less likely to be a trade unionist. But who will save our unions if not the younger generations?

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Stick Together 25.11.12

www.3cr.org.au — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:16:00 -0800

This week Stick Together travels to the other side of the world to see how our Irish brothers and sisters are faring in the midst of the European debt crisis. In Ireland Brian Forbes from Mandate trade union, and in Melbourne Irish emigrant and trade unionist Dave Gibney join us on air. We discuss conditions for folks in Ireland now, and a national day of action against austerity planned for 24 November in Dublin.

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Stick Together 18.11.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Interview with district president of the CFMEU energy and mining division Stephen Smyth about the 24 month dispute with BHP-Mitsubishi Alliance in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. Then an interview with TIm Anderson, senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, who argues that the Syrian government should be defended against armed opposition forces, because the armed insurgency is being directed from outside Syria by the US and its allies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

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Stick Together 11.11.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we return to the battlegrounds of the ongoing class war in crisis-riddled Europe by exploring a range of alternative news items on recent key events in the trans European popular movements. Reflecting on anti-austerity protests in Britain, Surround the Congress in Spain and General Strikes in Greece, we look towards the upcoming historic anti-austerity General Strike and day of action across most of Europe on November 14. Featuring The Real News and Radio Labour.

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Stick Together 31.10.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:54:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together historic and current commentary from British rocker Billy Bragg. Billy Bragg’s been in Melbourne recently to play a few shows and celebrate the legacy of American folk singer Woody Guthrie. He also found the time to get down to Southern Cross station where the National Union of Workers were protesting against insecure jobs. 3CR programmer Bill Deller and 3CR station manager Marian Pricket joined me in the studio to chat a bit about Billy Bragg, his music and the connection to socialist politics and to hear some of his words and songs

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Stick Together 28.10.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we discuss Billy Bragg and socialism. We’ll be bringing you historic and current commentary from British rocker Billy Bragg. Billy Bragg’s been in Melbourne recently to play a few shows and celebrate the legacy of American folk singer Woody Guthrie. He also found the time to get down to Southern Cross station where the National Union of Workers were protesting against insecure jobs.

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Stick Together 14.10.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week we re-join public sector workers on the industrial battlefront in QLD and NSW. Plus Tenants Union of Queensland Penny Carr on the battle to maintain tenants advocacy services since the Newman government’s decision to stop funding them. Also Lisa Kremmer of the NSW nurses and midwives association whose members struck on Monday against the proposed changes to the award covering nurses and midwives working in the disability and aged care sectors.

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Stick Together 03.10.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:08:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we interview Craig McGregor, radiographer and candidate for Secretary of the demerged HSU Vic 3 Branch in upcoming elections of the corruption-scarred union. McGregor is heading the Clean Sweep ticket which promises to return control of the union to its members and keep a tight rein on official’s salaries. Opposing candidates have been approached for interviews. We also revisit an interview with labour historian Humphrey McQueen about the historic fight to win penalty rates for Australian workers.

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Stick Together 30.09.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:00:00 -0700

TAFE teachers across Victoria took unprotected strike action on Thursday the 20th of September. Many of their students joined them in walking out. Today on Stick Together we’re bringing you some sounds from the rally in Treasury Gardens. Also, some discussion with TAFE teachers and support staff at the rally about what the cuts will do to teaching and support services at TAFE campuses around Victoria.

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Stick Together 23.09.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:00:00 -0700

Another special program on the international day of action against outsourcing in the airlines industry. Summary of disputes at Philippines airlines, EgyptAir and Lufthansa in Germany. Followed by an interview with Kemal Ulker, International relations and education officer at Hava Is (the Turkish airline workers union) about the dismissal of 305 workers for protesting against the Turkish’s government’s ban on strikes in the aviation sector.

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Stick Together 16.09.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:00:00 -0700

On Stick Together this week we look back at the Builders Labourer’s Federation as construction unions across the country take industrial action.

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Stick Together 02.09.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:00:00 -0700

Today a look at conditions for a sector of the workforce that has no union and receives an income that leaves some well below the poverty line – unemployed workers. We hear from Llewellyn Reynders from the Victorian Council of Social Services about conditions for people getting by on the dole. Also Lynne Payne, a public servant and Together union delegate from Cairns, on the ongoing concern of public sector cuts in QLD.

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Stick Together 26.08.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:00:00 -0700

The International Transport Federation has called a global day of action on 27 September against outsourcing of jobs across the aviation industry, linking disputes including Qantas and Philippines Airlines. Stick Together interviewed Jerome Small from Australia Asia Worker Links about the event.

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Stick Together 19.08.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:00:00 -0700

In Queensland up to 20,000 public servants could lose their jobs under Liberal National Party premier Campbell Newman’s job cuts. A recent front page story in the Courier Mail suggests that 4,000 of those job losses will be in Queensland Health. Later on in the show we’re going to hear from the secretary of the Queensland Nurses Union Beth Mohle on the impact of those cuts on health workers and public health services in Queensland. Also on the show, a look at sex worker discrimination with Janelle Fawkes from the Scarlet Alliance.

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Stick Together 12.08.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we welcome back previous guest ASU delegate Louisa Bassini from the Tenants Union of Victoria. Louisa talks about why her workmates will go on strike again, setting a precedent for industrial action related to the groundbreaking Equal Pay Case. We also continue our look at the VIC Baillieu government job cuts by talking to a member of a rank and file activist group who hope to rebuild a fighting public sector unionism by rejuvenating workplace union structures.

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Stick Together 29.07.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:00:00 -0700

Update from the “Reform SDA” campaign against the Woolworths union agreement. Interview with Dave Fregon, secretary of the Anarcho-syndicalist Federation in Brisbane about how Dominoes pizza delivery drivers around the country have had their wages cut by 19%. And interview with Pier Moro, co-ordinator of Australia Asia Worker Links about why work visas should be abolished all together.

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Stick Together 22.07.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:42:00 -0700

On Stick Together this week some voices from The Toll Logistics warehouse in Melbourne’s north where workers have blocked trucks for over a week in their fight for just pay and conditions. This warehouse is the main storage and transport hub for Coles supermarkerts in Victoria. As the company has sought injunctions on their workers preventing at least 15 of them from participating in the picket we have avoided using workers’ names. We spoke to them on Tuesday morning after the injunctions had been served and the picket line remained unbroken. Later on in the show we’ll also hear from QLD public sector worker Angie Saville on the public sector job cuts and the fight back.

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Stick Together 15.07.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:34:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we look at the Victorian government’s construction industry code of practice which took effect on July 1. 10,000 construction workers struck on July 5 against the laws and we spoke to rank and file CFMEU member Jerome Small. We also discuss unions in the equal marriage debate with SDA Members for Equality founding member Duncan Hart who shares his views about democracy within the SDA and the Queensland government’s attacks on queer, indigenous and worker rights.

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Stick Together 08.07.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we discuss the role for organised labour and rank-and-filers in forcing Federal Labor to take a more humane approach to refugees. We speak to secretary of Labor for Refugees in Victoria Robin Rothfield. First though we take a look at the fight for justice for injured and sick workers with NSW firefighters. The NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union secretary Jim Casey joins us for a chat.

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Stick Together 1.07.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week Stick Together covers two major disputes in the resources sector. Firstly, Christy Cain, secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia’s Western Australian branch talks about the campaign to stop Chevron and its contractor DB Schenker using foreign-crewed vessels with lower wages and conditions to service the Gorgon off-shore oil and gas project. Then labour historian Humphrey McQueen talks about the recent disputes and strikes in the Bowen Basin coal mining region, and the history of union activism in the region.

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Stick Together 24.06.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:09:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we bring you a panel discussion on the Baillieu government’s assault on Victoria’s public sector and the fight back, taking some cues from history and the mass mobilisation against Jeff Kennet in the 90s. The Ted Baillieu liberal government came to power with a clear anti-public sector agenda capping wage increase below inflation and cutting more than 3,500 public sector jobs. The May budget included more huge spending cuts slashing $300millionfrom TAFE schools. Our panellists are: NTEU organiser Serena O’Meley, Socialist Party member Mel Gregson and union activist and historian Lynn Beaton.

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Stick Together 10.06.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:30:00 -0700

On Stick Together this week we head back to Ireland to talk about debt, crisis and what is to be done. Workers Solidarity activist and member of the Debt Justice Action Network Mark Malone joins us with a warning for the ‘yes’ voters and an explanation of what Ireland’s vote for the European fiscal treaty means for the Irish people already suffering under massive public spending cuts and tax increases. We also chat with former retail worker now organiser with Mandate trade union Tara Keane, about the workers’ occupation of a store in January to win owed wages and conditions.

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Stick Together 10.06.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:00:00 -0700

On Stick Together this week we reflect on the Victorian public school teachers’ EBA campaign. On 7 June up to 30,000 teachers held the biggest ever Victorian teachers’ strike shutting down 200 schools statewide. We speak to primary teacher and Occupy activist Tal Slome on why she strikes for better public education and secondary teacher and Socialist Alternative member Manolya Moustafa about alternatives to the industrial strategy favoured by AEU leadership.

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Stick Together 3.06.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 09:00:00 -0700

This week, labour historian Humphrey McQueen talks about the history of how penalty pay rates were won in the 1940s, and about how banks, retail and hospitality businesses are now trying to reduce them. And then Alejandro Rodriguez introduces the Renewal Super fund, which aims to invest workers’ superannuation in renewal energy.

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Stick Together 27.05.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 May 2012 18:38:00 -0700

In Spain the indignados have risen and continue to rise, in Italy they’re burning works of art, in Greece the waves of protests, general strikes and elections continue and in Ireland tens of thousands protested the first round of austerity measures there. The Irish have otherwise been fairly quiet despite suffering under some of the harshest austerity measures in Europe, but for how long… The Eurozone is in crisis and today we’re joined in the studio by Irish trade unionist Dave Gibney to talk about austerity in Ireland in anticipation of the referendum due at the end of this month on a new fiscal treaty. This podcast contains some audio excerpts from NPR news in the U.S. featuring Irish journalist Vincent Browne and TodayFM in Ireland featuring the general secretary of Mandate union John Douglas.

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Stick Together 20.05.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 20 May 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week, researcher and blogger Chris White reports back from the ACTU national congress in Sydney, including a forum held about the right to strike. Then Margarita Windisch, TAFE teacher at Victoria University, talks about funding cuts to Victorian TAFEs and the state government’s push towards greater privatisation of education and training.

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Stick Together 13.05.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:00:00 -0700

Dare to Struggle! Dare to Win! This week on Stick Together we remember and celebrate the legacy of the Victorian Builders Labourers Federation. We’ll hear from former builders labourers and BLF supporters: George Despard, Humphrey McQueen, Margaret Kane and Paddy Donnelly. The recordings were made at the launch of a BLF history project at the Celtic Club in Melbourne “Lessons for the 21st Century”.

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Stick Together 06.05.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we feature highlights from our special May Day live broadcast on 3CR. We speak with Francois Hughes from the Occupy Oakland Labour Solidarity Committee about Occupy union outreach and Occupy May Day, and we feature a panel discussion about rebuilding the Australian union movement featuring Anthony Main (SP, Unite), Dave Kerin (Earthworker Cooperative) and Cindy O’Connor (AMWU).

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Stick Together 29.04.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:06:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we continue our exploration of class politics in QLD through the lens of the ALP’s massive election loss. Senior IR lecturer at the Univervisty of Queensland and socialist activist Tom Bramble joins us for a discussion about Labor and organised labour, the ties that bind and the implications for revolutionary struggle.

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Stick Together 22.04.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:00:00 -0700

Today’s program focuses on women workers in struggle in the Philippines. Malou Logan is the co-ordinator of the education and research committee of Gabriella Australia and she discusses Gabriella’s work to build an international alliance of Filippino working women in the Philippines and abroad. Jennifer Senga is a ramp and baggage worker at Philippines Air Lines and she discusses the current dispute of her union, PALEA against casualisation and outsourcing.

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Stick Together 15.04.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we take a look at the pace of development in China, conditions for the working class and factionalism and corruption within the communist party. We’re going to be hearing from socialist activist and senior editor for the bilingual workers’ rights website Chinaworker Vincent Kolo. He was interviewed by Stick Together producer Diana Beaumont during a visit to Melbourne.

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Stick Together 08.04.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we speak to RMIT academic and National Tertiary Education Union delegate Liam Ward about the ‘Behavioural Compatibility Framework’ which prompted resistance from staff and a declaration by Fair Work Australia that said resistance is illegal industrial action. We also speak to Australian Services Union delegate and Tenants Union advocate Louisa Bassini about how increased union militancy over many months led workers to finally win a collective union agreement.

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Stick Together 01.04.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:32:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we head north to discuss the Queensland state election result with Rail, Tram and Bus union assistant state secretary and Communist Party member David Watters. We also catch up with Victorian president of the CFMEU Ralph Edwards to talk about the long overdue dismantling of the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

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Stick Together 25.03.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week we cover two cases of employer lock-outs. One is at Sigma pharmaceuticals in Melbourne, where workers used a strike and community picket to fight off management efforts to remove shift loadings for afternoon and night shifts. And the other at Affco meatworks where the company is trying to move workers off their collective agreement and onto individual contracts.

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Stick Together 18.03.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we check in with Victorian nurses now in conciliation talks with the State government. Tara Nipe, clinical nurse and ANF delegate joins us to talk about the decision to stop the hospital walkouts. And, we discuss the threat to public health and workers’ rights from the recent Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations with Dr. Patricia Ranald, the convenor of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network.

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Stick Together 11.03.2012

breebree — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:47:00 -0800

On this week’s program we talk about what many were expecting to be history’s greatest ever strike, the all India strike on 28 February. We spoke with Gautam Mody, Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative (one of the unions that called the strike) and Satyam Varma from the Workers Charter Movement who was critical of the striking unions’ strategies.

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Stick Together 04.03.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:38:00 -0800

Victorian nurses stop work. This week Stick Together joins nurses stopping work at hospitals across Victoria in their ongoing industrial battle with the Victorian Government.
Rolling work stoppages began at major Victorian hospitals on Friday the 24th of February. We spoke to nurses first at the Royal Melbourne hospital and then at the Alfred hospital as they walked off the job.

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Stick Together 26.02.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Featuring interview with Mark Bray, University of Newcastle, about how compromises made by the engineers’ union ALAEA may affect the overall outcome of the industrial dispute at Qantas, and what precedents the dispute might set for industrial relations in general.

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Stick Together 12.02.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we mark the final ruling from Fair Work Australia awarding pay increases to thousands of social and community services workers in recognition of historic and continuing underpayment of workers in the sector. The ruling is a historic victory in the struggle for equal pay for women’s work. We spoke with Australian Services Union assistant national secretary Linda White and community services worker and ASU delegate Debbie Brennan.

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Stick Together 05.02.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:40:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we follow the ongoing struggle against outsourcing of more Telstra jobs and explore the issues for workers from across borders in a liberalising global marketplace. We hear voices from the recent rally in solidarity with Telstra workers losing their jobs as Telstra brings in temporary workers and sends jobs offshore. We also speak with Dr. Pat Ranald, convenor of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment network, on the Australia-India free trade negotiations and how workers in Australia and temporary workers in India might be affected.

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Stick Together 29.1.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Today we talk more about unions’ controversial strategy to outsource the recruitment of union members to the private company WorkPartners, now in liquidation. One of the main unions using WorkPartners – the Australian Education Union, the AEU – about what responsibility it has to the WorkPartners employees, and about how WorkPartners recruiters have accounted for 50% of new members recruited into the AEU in recent times. Then, we’ll report on an extremely unusual case of the Carlton Hotel, a pub in Melbourne’s city, where workers bargained with their employer to get all workers in the Carlton Hotel moved off casual employment and onto permanent part-time jobs, with proper penalty rates. We speak to Steph, a former worker at Carlton Hotel who won back pay for a year of underpaid wages, and Chris Dite, organiser with the UNITE union.

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Stick Together 18.01.12

www.3cr.org.au — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0800

Today on Stick Together we talk with David Whyte, Reader and Sociologist at the University of Liverpool about the exploitation of undocumented workers the UK, other forms of precarious work, and health and safety. Stick Together speaks to Len Cooper, Victorian Secretary of the Communication Workers Union about their campaign around the collective fight to improve the rights of sub-contractors.

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Stick Together 15.01.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together, we focus on how public services and public sector workers are being affected across Victoria by liberal party austerity policies. Interviews with Mary Bluett, secretary of the Australian Education Union’s (Vic) about EBA negotiations and the high number of new teachers on short-term contracts. And Luke Hilakari, campaigns co-ordinator at Victorian Trades Hall about campaigns to co-ordinate union responses across the public sector.

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Stick Together 8.01.2012

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

This week, Stick Together reports on three ongoing industrial disputes: the lockout of workers by stevedoring company POAGS on the docks in WA and NSW, the lockout of workers at Schweppes soft drink factory in Melbourne, and the ongoing fight to protect nurses’ working conditions in Victoria.

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Stick Together 01.01.12

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we revisit the issue of sham contracting in the wake of the ABCC’s long-awaited report and talk about deaths on building sites in 2011 eith CFMEU construction division national secretary Dave Noonan. We also catch up with CPSU Victoria state secretary Karen Batt totake a closer look at the Victorian state government’s latest attack on public sector workers.

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Stick Together 18.12.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together, we have an in-depth discussion with Irene Bolger, former secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF), 1986-9. She urges the current leadership of the Victorian ANF to take strike action to protect nurses’ wages and conditions.

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Stick Together 11.12.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:08:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we take a look at the campaign to include family violence clauses in workplace agreements and the continuing struggle to eradicate asbestos globally.
We’ll be joined by asbestos campaigner Maree Stokes and by Ludo McFerran from the project for domestic violence workplace rights and entitlements.

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Stick Together 27.11.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:09:00 -0800

On 18 November Fair Work Australia ordered the ANF to stop it’s industrial action. Nurses are fighting for better pay and conditions, to maintain or improve nurse patient ratios, against the introduction of split shifts and health care assistants. Nurse patient ratios have emerged as the key battlefront in this struggle, with the government determined to cut them to shave millions off the health budget and nurses refusing to budge on the hard-won ratios which ensure adequate patient care and help prevent nurse burnout. At the rally on Thursday we spoke to nurses and supporters about why they were hitting the streets.

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Stick Together 20.11.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Today’s show focuses on the ongoing strike by migrant workers at the Baiada poultry factory in Laverton, Melbourne. We discuss the Herald Sun’s negative coverage of the strike, followed by interviews with a Baiada worker, and a farmer who grows chickens for Baiada.

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Stick Together 13.11.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:00:00 -0800

This week we focus on four union strikes: Victorian nurses’ dispute with the Bailleu government over pay and staffing ratios; the ongoing dispute at Qantas over the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs; the strike at Baiada chicken factory in Melbourne and airport cleaners win higher pay at Melbourne airport after eight weeks of rolling strikes.

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Stick Together 06.11.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:00:00 -0800

200 years ago workers in the north of England began a machine-breaking rebellion, cloaked in secrecy and swearing allegiance to their mysterious leader General Ludd. They became known as the Luddites. To mark the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Luddites rebellion we spoke with a couple of proud luddites. Theo Simon is a musician and songwriter from british folk band Seize the Day. We talked about the songs of the Ludds and the communities they lived in. I also spoke with David King. David is a member of the Luddites 200 forum and is helping organise celebrations.

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Stick Together 09.10.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:32:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we take a look at the campaign against public sector cuts in NSW in the wake of the recent changes to industrial relations law by the O’Farrel coalition government. These changes will lead to thousands of lost jobs and reduced wages and conditions for public sector workers. We hear from NSW Union Activist Network member Susan Price and Rail, Tram and Bus Union delegate John Coleman.

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Stick Together 02.10.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Dave Smith, Assistant Secretary AMWU, gave a report on strikes at Toyota’s car assembly plant in Altona, Melbourne. And Chris Christodoulou, Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW, introduced how the federal government and unions are considering changes to long service leave legislation that would allow workers to carry their long service leave over from one employer to another.

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Stick Together 25.09.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Lately Stick Together has looked at the growth of insecure work; casual employment, sham contracting, workforces made up of labour-hire casuals or being paid cash in hand and without protections. Tim Kennedy, Victorian Branch Secretary of the NUW, talks about insecure work at the regional delegates conference in Wodonga.

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Stick Together 18.09.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Civil wars in US Labour. Extended interview about the state of the US labour movement with Steve Early, former organiser with the Communication Workers of America, and author of “The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: birth of a new labor movement or death throes of the old?”

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Stick Together 11.09.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:35:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we hear a repeat of last month’s show on alternatives to neoliberalism with Dave Kerin from Earthworker Cooperative and Washington-based Keynesian economist Dr. Thomas Palley. Tom Palley has made a proposal for a global minimum wage system and is a passionate proponent for structural Keynesianism. First up though we mark the launch of the Earthworker Cooperatives campaign to gain support to build the Morwell solar hot water systems plant with founding member Dave Kerin.

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Stick Together 04.09.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:00:00 -0700

First, we discuss unions and the media with Andrea Carsons, Lecturer in Political Science at Melbourne University. Then we get a report about strikes in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas sector, from Rob Jones, Communist Workers International, Moscow.

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Stick Together 28.08.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:43:00 -0700

On today’s program we will be getting updates on three different styles of Union campaign, looking at the broad scope of Union work that is going on in Australia today.

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Stick Together 21.08.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:00:00 -0700

This week we cover one of the most high profile union elections in recent years – the National and Victorian elections for the Electrical Trades Union, the ETU. We play interviews with incumbent Victorian secretary Dean Mighell (Full Charge ticket) and the man challenging him, John Ingram, currently ETU Assistant National Secretary (Reconnect ticket).

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Stick Together 14.08.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Alternatives to neoliberalism: This week on Stick Together we hear from Washington-based Keynesian economist Dr. Thomas Palley on the proposal for a global minimum wage system and the argument for a return to Keynesian economics. First though we mark the launch of the Earthworker Cooperatives campaign to gain support to build the Morwell solar hot water systems plant with founding member Dave Kerin.

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Stick Together 07.08.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Interviews with Godfrey Moase, organiser NUW, about new campaign to unionise casual workers. And Zana Bytheway, executive director of JobWatch, about casual work and funding cuts threatening JobWatch’s survival.

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Stick Together 24.07.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Randa Kattan, Executive Director of the Arab Council Australia, will speak about the campaign against the expansion of Centrelink “income management” programs to Vic, NSW, QLD and SA. Then Arthur Rorris, South Coast Labour Council Secretary, will talk about new industrial relations laws in New South Wales, which unions say are “worse than WorkChoices”.

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Stick Together 17.07.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:43:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we take a look at what the Federal Government’s carbon price policy and emissions trading scheme means for workers. We hear from Sydney University political economist Dr. Stuart Rosewarne and AMWU assistant secretary Mike Nicolaides. We also revisit the May Fair Work Australia ruling, with ASU delegate Debbie Brennan, that found that community sector workers were being underpaid largely due to the gendered nature of the sector.

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Stick Together 10.07.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Today we discuss how unions are losing millions of dollars in fines for “unlawful” industrial action. Featuring interviews with blogger Chris White; Shaun Reardon, Vice-President CFMEU, Victoria; and Christy Cain, Secretary Maritime Union of Australia, Western Australia.

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Stick Together 03.07.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:00:00 -0700

First up, Paddy Gibson, organiser with the Stop the Intervention Collective in Sydney, on the current state of indigenous workers rights in the Northern Territory. Then, censorship and repression facing labour activists and unionists today in Thailand. Then a short excerpt from an interview by Elena McMaster on last week’s show with Vitasoy delegate, John Sheehan, about NUW members demanding their fellow Vitasoy workers and unionists in Hong Kong be covered by their EBA.

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Stick Together 26.06.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Interview about Fair Work Australia’s decision to reduce the minimum retail shift from 3 hours to 1.5 hours, with Chris Dite from UNITE. And discussion with independent labour activist Ellen David Friedman, about attacks on bargaining rights for public sector unions in the US, and a class action law suit brought against Wal-Mart for sex-discrimination.

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Stick Together 19.06.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we take a look at the international solidarity work being done by Vitasoy workers in Wodonga, Victoria, for their Hong Kong comrades. They’ve included Hong Kong workers in their current EBA negotiations with Vitasoy Australia demanding that the EBA coverage is extended to Hong Kong workers. In Hong Kong Vitasoy International Holdings is refusing to start negotiations with the workers’ union over a pay rise.

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Stick Together 12.06.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:00:00 -0700

We discuss the passage of health reform legislation in the US state of Vermont, aimed at creating a single-payer, universal health scheme. We talk to Dr Peter Davoren, President of the Doctor’s Reform Society, about private health insurance in Australia. And then to James Haslam, Director of the Vermont Workers Centre, about why health insurance is such a big issue for workers in the US.

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Stick Together 05.06.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Today’s show is a repeat of a program by Diana Beaumont from 16 March 2011. It looks at the use of union recruiter, WorkPartners. Diana speaks to Victorian state secretary of the Australian Education Union, Mary Bluett; executive Australian Services Union member Pier Moro, of the Authorities and Services branch; and ASU member in local government, Matt Wilson.

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Stick Together 29.05.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Interviews about Fairfax media’s proposal to lay-off staff and outsource production roles, such as sub-editing, with Alison Cassard sub-editor of the National Times http://www.facebook.com/FutureProofFairfax. News about private union membership recruitment firm Work Partners failing to pay superannuation to its employees. Followed by interview with Elena McMaster, Friends of the Earth, about the Australian Education Union’s decision to ban nanotechnology sunscreens in schools.

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Stick Together 22.05.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 22 May 2011 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we celebrate the recent victory at Fair Work Australia for women and other workers in the social and community sector with Debbie Brennan from Pay Justice Action. Also, an update on the right to strike in Australia with the president of the communications workers union Len Cooper about whether the right to strike really is the right to strike in Australia.

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Stick Together 15.05.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Tune in for a live recording of a question and answer session with John Pilger, renowned documentary film maker, about his new film “The War you don’t see”. Recorded at the Marxism 2011 conference in Melbourne over the Easter Weekend.

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Stick Together 08.05.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:00:00 -0700

Indigenous workers rights in the Northern Territory; casualisation and current attacks on working conditions; the Australian working Census and a message of international solidarity – hear from five different speakers in Melbourne and Brisbane at the 2011 May Day Celebrations.

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Stick Together 01.05.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Live May Day broadcast, about the role of women in the organised labour movement. Interviews with Margaret Kane, member of the women’s committee of the Builders’ Labourers’ Federation (BLF). And Jan Brownrigg, nurse and unionist, who was involved in the 1970 Canberra nurses strike.

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Stick Together 17.04.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Today, Stick Together continues to discuss the issue of casualisation. First up, Michele O’Neil TCFUA tells us how many workers made redundant from the textile and clothing sector can only find unreliable, casual jobs. Then John Setka CFMEU talks about construction contractors who don’t pay their workers proper wages and benefits, or who sub-contract work to people who they should be treating as employees.

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Stick Together 10.04.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Today’s show is the first in a series by Stick Together on casualisation, labour hire, sham contractors and cash work. What needs to be done in Australia today to enforce fair and basic rights for workers to get a fair value for the cost of their labour? You will hear from Maritime Union delegate, Damien Martin and UNITE organiser Mel Gregson.

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Stick Together 03.04.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Featuring interviews about CSIRO’s first ever strike, with Lousie Jarmon from the CSIRO staff association. Then discussion about industrial, environmental and financial issues at the Wonthaggi desalination plant, with Simon Miller, ETU member and electrician on the site.

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Stick Together 27.03.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:08:00 -0700

Two ETU officials, state secretary Peter Simpson and organiser Stuey Traill, were expelled from the Labor party last week and over 3,000 Queensland rail workers are being made redundant as the privatised arm QR National sheds a third of its workforce. We hear from RTBU infrastructure secretary and Labor party member Richie Bates on the QR job losses and Stuey and Peter’s expulsion. Also, RTBU assistant secretary and communist party member David Mathers about how he sees the relationship between the ALP and the progressive union movement.

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Stick Together 20.03.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:00:00 -0700

How many unions are outsourcing membership recruitment to the private firm Work Partners? Is it working? Interviews with Mary Bluett, President of the Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian branch; Pier Moro, member of the executive of the Australian Services Union (ASU) – Authorities and Services in Victoria; and ASU member Matt Wilson, who met a Work Partners recruiter in his workplace.

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Stick Together 13.03.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:00:00 -0700

Today’s program was recorded live from the Maritime Union of Australia in West Melbourne on Friday 4th March, presented by the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation. You will hear Gerry Conlon’s story of imprisonment, torture, and his thoughts on the dangers of anti-terror laws today.

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Stick Together 06.03.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:10:00 -0800

In today’s show Joel Beinin from Stanford University talks about the role of workers’ organisations in anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt. And Ed Sadlowski from Wisconsin Council 40 reports from huge community protests against proposed legislation that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin, USA.

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Stick Together 27.02.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:36:00 -0800

Strike Rights and Revolution. Jiselle Hanna of Australia Asia Worker Links joins us to read the Egyptian independent trade unionists’ declaration on the demands of workers in the revolution. From revolutionary Egypt to the right to strike in Australia. We explore the extent and impact of years of attacks on workers’ right to take industrial action in Australia with Shae McCrystal, law lecturer and author of “The right to strike in Australia.”

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Stick Together 20.02.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:30:00 -0800

This program looks at Australia’s poultry industry and specifically the working conditions at Baiada’s Wingfield factory in Adelaide and Laverton factory in Victoria. Laverton member’s witness statements speak of intimidation by managment, unsafe working conditions and sham contractors orperating on site.

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Stick Together 13.02.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Waterworks: Floods, Cuts, & Industrial Action. We check in with water workers in Tasmania taking industrial action at Ben Lomond Water. Also, after the deluge, some of the government’s proposed higher education cuts to fund the flood reconstruction are of concern to NTEU President Jeannie Ray. Climate change programs are also facing cuts, so we hear from Greens Senator Christine Milne.

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Stick Together 06.02.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:00:00 -0800

We hear again from former Stick Together presenter Diana Beaumont about labour rights issues in China, and Melba Marginson takes us through the findings of a joint report by the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition and the LHMU into working conditions for hotel room attendants, Heartbreak Hotels: The Crisis Inside Melbourne Luxury Hotels.

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Stick Together 30.01.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:00:00 -0800

On the program we’ll be hearing about two current disputes. First, the Australian Services Union’s ‘equal work, equal pay’ campaign and then – from the Social and Community Services sector to general stevedoring on Australia’s wharves – we’ll be hearing about a national dispute where workers are fighting for safety and permanency; and the company, Patrick, is refusing to come to the table…

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Stick Together 23.01.11

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we celebrate the introduction of Australia’s first paid parental leave scheme with a conversation with Marie Coleman from the National Foundation of Australian Women. Later in the show we catch up with workers delegate, Tito, from the Swift Meats factory to talk about their recent victory against the world’s biggest meat conglomerate after a 5 week long strike.

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Stick Together 16.01.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Summer programming: Jobs With Justice & Zombie Economics. The NT Intervention has been opposed on the basis that it attacks the human rights and land rights of Aboriginal communities. Gurindji spokesperson John Leemans and Paddy Gibson from the Intervention Rollback Action Group talk about the union-backed Jobs With Justice campaign. Also, economist John Quiggin discusses his book, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us.

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