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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 30.10.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0700

This week, we present documentary audio recordings of the violent police eviction of the #occupymelbourne protest. Featuring an interview with Sam Salvidge about union and worker participation in #occupymelbourne. Sam Salvidge works for the National Union of Workers, and is a member of the community and union outreach group of OccupyMelbourne.

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Stick Together 23.10.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0700

This weeks Stick Together visits Occupy Melbourne and Occupy Wall street, as movements around the globe protest against the exploitation and suffering that corporate greed has lead to. The 99% are saying NO MORE.

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Stick Together 16.10.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we replay an interview from Stick Together 2007, with Ian Syson about working class literature. Ian is a lecturer at Victoria University, and runs Vulgar Press.

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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 01.08.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:00:00 -0700

Farooq Tariq is the general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan. On this show hear the replay of an interview with Tariq from 23 July, with Pier Moro from Asia Pacific Currents about striking power loom and electric workers in Pakistan. Also, Chris Dite an organiser with UNITE – the fighting union for fast food and retail workers gives an update of the Brunswick Street Campaign in Melbourne, a campaign for organised hospitality and retail workers to demand minimum working entitlements.

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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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www.3cr.org.au — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:00:00 -0800

This show is the second instalment from a large public meeting celebrating the 156th Eureka Stockade anniversary from Trade Hall in Melbourne. You will hear from speakers Robbie Thorpe, indigenous activist and Luke van der Meulen, president of the CFMEU mining and energy division in Victoria.

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Stick Together 02.01.2011

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:37:00 -0800

The Family File, published in 2010, chronicles the radical political activities of the Aaron’s family, the ‘first family’ of the Australian Communist Party (CPA), against the backdrop of the global communist movement’s ideological angst after Kruschev’s denunciation of stalinism and later radical left-wing struggles in Australia.

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Stick Together 26.12.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Funding Equal Pay & Unemployment Benefits. One of 2010’s major union campaigns has been the fight for equal pay for community sector workers. Today we speak to ASU workplace delegate Pier Moro, and lead organiser Wil Stracke. Also, Peter Whiteford of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of NSW discusses why unemployment benefits need to be increased.

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Stick Together 19.12.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:00:00 -0800

On the 3 December 50 or so people gathered infront of the eight hour monument in Melbourne to celebrate the 156th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade rebellion. On this show we’ll bring you speeches by Brian Boyd, Secretary of the VTHC, and Kevin Bracken, Secretary of the Victorian branch of the MUA. Later in the show – a talk by Humphrey McQueen, labour historian and writer, given at the Spirit of Eureka’s anniversary celebration.

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Stick Together 12.12.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:24:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together we catch up with ETU organiser in Far North Queensland Stuart Traill to discuss the Bligh Government’s privatisation program and the likelihood that the ETU will be ejected from the Queensland Labor Party due to their opposition to the sell-off. We also hear from Lorraine Cassin, AMWU print division national secretary, to check in on the striking Visy workers and the breakdown in negotiations with Visy.

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Stick Together 05.12.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Power In Coalition. On today’s program we’re at the Melbourne launch of Amanda Tattersall’s book about strategies for strong unions and social change. Speakers: Brian Boyd, Victorian Trades Hall Council; Amanda Tattersall, Unions NSW.

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Stick Together 28.11.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:00:00 -0800

World firsts and anniversaries. We’ll be talking with Ludo McFarren about the recent Surf Coast Shire EBA by the ASU, providing 20 days paid leave under a family and domestic violence clause. Then we’ll hear from Shirley Winton about the upcoming anniversary of the Eureka Stockade.

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Stick Together 21.11.10

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:26:00 -0800

Asbesto Awareness Week runs from 22 – 26 November. In recognition of those suffering from asbestos-related disease, those that have died and the huge risk that asbestos still presents to workers’ safety, this week on Stick Together we hear from Karen Banton, the widow of the late Bernie Banton who died in November 2007 from mesothelioma. Karen is the head of the Bernie Banton Foundation. We also hear from Omana George from the Asia Monitor Resource Centre on the campaign to ban the use of asbestos products.

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Stick Together 14.11.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:00:00 -0800

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. Adding to these lines of argument is a new campaign that focuses on the Intervention’s impact on jobs, and the working conditions it imposes. 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 new book, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us.

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Stick Together 07.11.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:00:00 -0800

The role of education in social justice campaigns and the union movement. First up Rob Durbridge from the Search Foundation talks about the upcoming Union and Community Summer school in Melbourne, then Marilyn Strother and Gabe Gooding from the NTEU talk about their union’s support for the traditional owners at James Price Point against compulsory land acqusition.

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Sticky Together 31.10.10

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:00:00 -0700

This week Stick Together is dedicated to South Australian construction worker Ark Tribe. We are joined by CFMEU Construction division officials, National Secretary Dave Noonan and South Australian branch secretary Martin O’Malley, as Ark Tribe stares down the prospect of 6 months jail time for failing to attend a secret interrogation with the building industry watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

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Stick Together 24.10.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Today we hear 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 17.10.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:00:00 -0700

On this show John Cleary draws on his experiences of socialism in Venezuela at a talk he gave at the Latin American Solidarity Conference in Melbourne on the 8th October.

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Stick Together 10.10.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:30:00 -0700

Sweatshops, School Uniforms and Sports. On today’s program we take a look at workers in the textiles industry at home and abroad. Mark Riley from FairWear Victoria discusses outworkers and sweatshops in Australia’s textiles industry and the campaign to make school uniforms sweatshop free. And, to mark the beginning of the Commonwealth Games, we talk with Daisy Gardner, Labour Rights Advocacy Coordinator for Oxfam Australia, about worker exploitation in sportswear factories in Asia.

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Stick Together 03.10.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Power In Coalition. On today’s program we’re at the Melbourne launch of Amanda Tattersall’s new book about strategies for strong unions and social change. Speakers: Brian Boyd, Victorian Trades Hall Council; Amanda Tattersall, Unions NSW.

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Stick Together 26.09.10

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:00:00 -0700

We look at two recent disputes in Melbourne and Canberra. Zarko Spasovski discusses the successful Kennon Auto strike and we hear a report on the Canberra bus drivers campaign to win a better EBA from their employer.

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Stick Together 19.09.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:40:00 -0700

How is economic participation related to social inclusion and how is the “socially useful” individual defined? The struggle for a proper valuation of “women’s work” and other forms of unpaid work continues. Join us on Stick Together this week for a discussion with social activist Eva Cox and Melbourne University research fellow Dina Bowman.

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Stick Together 22.08.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0700

Today’s podcast will be a repeat from May where Diana Beaumont discussed how workers and unions respond to flexible terms of employment. Elsa Underhill from Deakin University speaks about labour hire agencies and their tendency to diminish working conditions, and Simon, a temp worker from a major bank in Melbourne, dispatched without any notice from a labour hire agency. We will be back to normal programming next week.

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StickTogether 22.08.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:00:00 -0700

In this episode of Stick Together we’ll be catching up Mel Gregson from Unite, the Union that represents fast food and retail workers in Victoria, for an update on the Baker’s Delight dispute involving three Baker’s Delight stores in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. And Margarita Windisch from Socialist Alliance about proposed changes that would see Police Industrial (Victoria’s industrial relations arm of the police) come under Counter Terrorism.

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Stick Together 15.08.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week we continue our discussion about precarious workers. Ingrid Stitt, Secretary of the Australian Services Union Private Sector Branch in Victoria, talks about working conditions for call centre workers, and her union’s efforts to organize them.

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Stick Together 08.08.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Women at Work. Featuring: Barbara Pocock, Director of the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia; Mimmy Kowel, Labour Rights consultant with Oxfam; Keelia Fitzpatrick, Women’s Officer, National Union of Students; the Tony Abbott Iron Ladies Auxiliary.

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Stick Together 01.08.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:02:00 -0700

Today on Stick Together we talk with Wayne McAndrew and Chris Cumming of the CFMEU about their negotiations with Xtrata at the Tahmoor Coal Mine in NSW.

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Stick Together 25.07.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Today Stick Together has an international focus. We begin with a discussion with Marc Belanger of the radiolabour.net project, about the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)’s global conference, 21 – 25 June 2010. Followed by a report from Jarad Phillips, organizer with the UNITE union in New Zealand, about WorkChoices-style changes being made to industrial relations laws in New Zealand.

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