: StickTogetherShow

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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Stick Together 18.07.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week we play a speech by Dave Kerin, former union solidarity coordinator and organizer with the CFMEU Mining and Energy division (Vic), about plans for a cooperative factory in Victoria’s LaTrobe valley to produce solar hot water heaters.

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StickTogether 11.07.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:31:00 -0700

Today on Stick Together we talk to Jane Stabb from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and Maria Draper from Union Climate Connectors about their recent trip to Canberra where they met with politicians to discuss action on climate change.

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Stick Together 4.07.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week we broadcast two speeches from the Stick Together forum on 24 June in Melbourne “Election 2010: Unfinished Business”. Ralph Edwards President of the CFMEU Victorian branch, spoke about the need to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). Steve Dargavel, Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the AMWU, outlined the need for stronger protection of workers’ entitlements if their company becomes insolvent.

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Stick Together 27.06.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week we interview Rosemary Kelly, Secretary of the Medical Scientists Association of Victoria, about how workers have been disadvantaged by “award modernisation”. Then Luke Fletcher, co-ordinator of the Robin Hood tax campaign in Australia, talks about the campaign for a tax on financial transactions.

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Stick Together 13.06.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Ark Tribe vs the ABCC, National Rallies for Equal Pay, and Creating Jobs by Cutting Pollution. Guests: Dave Noonan, National Secretary of the CFMEU Construction and General Division; Lisa Darmanin from the ASU; and Giulia Baggio from the ACTU.

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Stick Together 06.06.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:12:00 -0700

Today we talk with Bonnie Rivendell and Jono Mullins from the Plumbers’ Union about their Indigenous Apprenticeship Program.

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Stick Together 30.05.2010

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

This week we broadcast an extended discussion of the history of unions in West Australia’s mining sector, with Des Hanlon, former Industrial Officer for the WA Trades and Labour Council, and Bill Deller, from 3CR’s Kept Left program.

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Stick Together 23.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week, we interview Willie Adams from the ILWU in the US, about an important, strategic victory in a dispute with Rio Tinto in California. Followed by Anthony Main from UNITE, about underpayment of international students working in 711, Geelong.

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Stick Together 16.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:41:00 -0700

Today on Stick Together, we focus on Telstra. We look at how the effects of Work Choices are still playing out in that workplace as well as the effects of more recent decisions by Telstra and policies of the current government. We hear from Valerie Butler who is an Industrial Officer with the CEPU in the Communications Division and Adam Bandt who is running as a candidate for the Greens in the Federal Seat of Melbourne.

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Stick Together 09.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week we focus on labour hire. Elsa Underhill from Deakin University describes how labour hire is used in Australia, and some of the impacts on working conditions. And Simon, a former temp worker at a major bank in Melbourne, speaks about what it was like to work as a casual worker dispatched from a labour hire agency.

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Stick Together 25.04.2010

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

Speeches from United Firefighters Union rally in Melbourne, featuring Peter Marshall, Mac Hanson, and Steven Marshall. Followed by interview with Deborah Vallance from the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, who criticizes the proposed harmonisation of state occupational health and safety laws.

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Stick Together 11.04.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week we discuss electoral politics in Queensland, and in Tasmania. First up, we get an update from Ron Monaghan, General Secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions, on the “Queensland Not For Sale” campaign, against the privitisation of state assets. Then Chris Breen, a member of the AMWU’s rank & file climate group, analyses the Greens strong performance in the recent Tasmanian elections, and discuss what lessons might be in it for the Labor Party.

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Stick Together 03.04.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0700

On this week’s edition of Stick Together we interview Richard Duffy, organiser with the Australian Services Union about their campaign to abolish the Local Government Inspectorate in Victoria. The LGI have the power to investigate any person, without the right to silence. We also interview Paddy Gibson, anti-intervention campaigner about working conditions for indigenous people who are forced to work for the BasicsCard, thereby having their pay quarantined.

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Stick Together 28.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week, we interview Wayne McAndrews from the CFMEU Mining and Energy Division, about the struggle to uphold working conditions at the Xstrata coal mine in New South Wales. Then we analyse the recent anti-government protests in Thailand, with Thai socialist Giles Ungpakorn.

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Stick Together 21.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0700

This week: ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney discusses the March 16 passage of the Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill. Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick discusses the significance of the ASU equal pay test case, filed with Fair Work Australia on March 11. And ETU Victorian Secretary Dean Mighell discusses the government’s failed $2.5 billion insulation scheme.

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Stick Together 14.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Sticking with the International Women’s Day theme of March 8, on this week’s edition of Stick Together we report on the sex discrimination case involving Qantas cleaning staff in Sydney. We talk to two workers who lost their jobs, Jessica Wang and Yasar Taskin, and the legal counsel for the Transport Workers’ Union, Nick McIntosh. Guilia Baggio then gives us a broader view of what the ACTU is doing to promote gender equality at work.

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Stcik Together 07.03.2010

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

On this week’s program, we cover the industrial dispute at Rio Tinto’s boron mine in California where 600 workers have been locked out. The Maritime Union of Australia recently held a protest outside Rio Tinto’s Melbourne office, in solidarity with the workers. We also talk to James Brennan of Renegade Activists, who are organising a conference at Camp Eureka on the ANZAC weekend on the history of radical industrial activity in Australia.

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Stick Together 28.02.2010

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

This week Chris White discusses the Liberal Party’s renewed attack on workers’ rights, and we broadcast an Al Jazeera documentary about the effects that privitisation and labour market de-regulation are having on Haiti’s ability to recover from the recent earthquake.

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Stick Together 21.02.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0800

On this week’s program, we interview Tim Gooden, secretary of Geelong Trades Hall Council about Australian unions’ support for the Ampilatwatja walk off by the Alyawarr people of the Northern Territory. Tim will tell of how unions are assisting the community to build sustainable houses and infrastructure, as the Northern Territory intervention has left their community with virtually no services.

We also interview Imogen Schoots Research Officer for the Electrical Trades Union about the campaign for an initiative that would put solar panels on every roof in Australia.

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Stick Together 14.02.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:28:00 -0800

This week, we report from a rally of MP Textiles workers, who returned from annual leave in January to find their factory suddenly closed. Then we commemorate Invasion Day (26 January) by speaking with Wayne Costello, Federal Aboriginal Equal Opportunity Officer with the Australian Education Union, about why indigenous issues are union issues.

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Stick Together 07.02.2010

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

On this week’s edition of Stick Together, we talk to Ellen Friedman, an independent labor activist and supporter of the newly formed National Union of Healthcare Workers NUHW. Also on this week’s program we cover the 20th anniversary of Melbourne’s worker-led Tram ways dispute, and bring interviews with two former tram drivers, Doug Jordon and Helen Said, who were very active in the campaign.

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Stick Together 31.01.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Three interviews from progressive union campaigns in Jakarta, Indonesia. Firstly, an interview from the MMBA garment workers’ factory occupation. Followed by accounts of the challenges and opportunities for Indonesian factory workers and organizers, from Jumisih, Coordinator of the Intra Factory Workers’ Forum (FBLP) and Sulaeman, Chairperson of the Solidarity Alliance for Workers Struggle (GSPB).

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Stick Together 24.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Summer broadcast. Love Your Work? Australians are giving more and more of their time to paid work, but what does work mean to us? Professor Barbara Pocock is the Director of the Centre for Work + Life at the University of Adelaide, where she’s extensively researched people’s relationships to their jobs. She delivered the 2009 Foenander Lecture, on the question, ‘What Makes For Meaningful Work in the 21st Century?’

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Stick Together 17.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Summer broadcast. Maternity Leave in Australia. Marian Baird delivers the 2009 Clare Burton Memorial Lecture, “A Slow (and unfinished) Revolution: Maternity leave, women and work.” She traces maternity leave policy and attitudes from the 1979 unpaid maternity leave test case to this year’s announcement of a government paid parental leave scheme, and the ongoing challenges to gender equity in work and life.

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Stick Together 10.01.2010

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

Summer broadcast. Death in the workplace – when killing is the job. Jeff Sparrow’s book, Killing: Misadventures in Violence, took him to a number of workplaces – to abattoirs, death row, and on kangaroo hunts – where killing is part of the everyday, to see if these places could provide some insight into the experience of killing in combat zones.

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Stick Together 03.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Kim Traill first went to the Soviet Union in 1990, not knowing that by the end of the following year it would no longer exist. She witnessed the dysfunction that marked daily life in the Soviet Union and the lawless capitalism that followed its collapse, returning often to visit friends and work as a video journalist for SBS Dateline. Her book is “Red Square Blues: A beginner’s guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union”.

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Stick Together 27.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:54:00 -0800

News from union struggles in Queensland, Victoria and South Korea. Queensland Electrical Trades Union Secretary Peter Simpson, about the proposed privitization of state assets. Rosemary Kelly, Executive Officer of the Medical Scientists Association of Victoria, about the lock-out of Dorevitch and Gippsland pathology workers who took strike action to push for an EBA. Pier Moro of Australia Asia Worker Links reports on the intense attacks on the Korean organized labour movement in 2009.

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Stick Together 20.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0800

This week on Stick Together, Joan Doyle from the Communications, Electrical and Plumbers Union about a dispute at Australia Post. The dispute received national media coverage over a ban on checking letters for stamps but has now escalated into a stoppage. And global solidarity and the question of binding carbon dioxide emissions cuts for developing countries. What is the view of progressive social movements in China and India? We spoke to Vinod Rainer from Jubilee South.

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Stick Together 13.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0800

This week workers’ campaigns in unions’ traditional stronghold – the manufacturing sector – as well as strategies to organize a new generation of young workers. Jenny Kruschel, Assistant Secretary of the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union (Vic Branch) and Glen Thompson, Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union. And finally Mary, a 17 year old retail worker, about why many young people do not join unions, and what strategies might succeed in organizing them.

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Stick Together 06.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0800

The International Day of People With Disability is marked each year on December 3rd. Today we take a look at disability in the workplace. 3CR’s Peter Goodyear speaks to WorkFocus Australia CEO Rob Gordon. Then John Dalton, a radio engineer, member of the ACT Disability Advisory Council, and former Station Manager of 2XX FM in Canberra, talks about what it’s like to be in the workforce with a disability.

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Stick Together 29.11.09

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0800

A World of Furtive Glances. Today we hear from Barry Healy about his experiences of The World of Furtive Glances, also known as Parliament House, Canberra on his recent lobbying trip with the ACTU’s Union Climate Connectors. Marj O’Callahan from the ACTU gives us the low down on unions engagement with climate change. We also catch up with Troy Burton from the LHMU in part two of our three part series on bargaining for the low paid, new provisions in the Fair Work Act for low paid workers.

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Stick Together 22.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0800

Three important union campaigns: Australian Services Union Lisa Darmanin on the campaign to increase pay across the community sector; Mel Gregson of UNITE Fast Food and Retail workers union about Bakers’ Delight workers in Melbourne’s northern suburbs; and finally an update on the campaign to stop the nation-wide erosion of occupational health and safety laws, and Asbestos Awareness Week, with Margot Hoyte from Victorian Trades Hall.

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Stick Together 15.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0800

Love Your Work? Australians are giving more and more of their time to paid work, but what does work mean to us? Professor Barbara Pocock is the Director of the Centre for Work + Life at the University of Adelaide, where she’s extensively researched people’s relationships to their jobs.

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Stick Together 08.11.09

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0800

On today’s show we’re looking at collective bargaining, enterprise agreements and industrial action: the life blood of Australia’s industrial relations system. I spoke to lawyer Mat Keneally, Chris Spindler from the AMWU on an industrial dispute in Melbourne’s north, and Martin McDonald and Darren Criswell workers from Moreland City Council.

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Stick Together 01.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0800

Today, the ongoing use and dangers of asbestos in Australia and overseas. Stick Together speaks to Karen Banton, widow of the late asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton; and to Omana George, Program Coordinator for the Asia Monitor Resource Centre, about the campaign for a complete ban on the use of asbestos products. Asbestos Awareness Week will be marked on 22-29 November.

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Stick Together 25.10.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:00:00 -0700

‘A Slow (and unfinished) Revolution: Maternity leave, women and work.’ Marian Baird delivers the 2009 Clare Burton Memorial Lecture, tracing maternity leave policy and attitudes from the 1979 unpaid maternity leave test case to this year’s announcement of a government paid parental leave scheme, and the ongoing challenges to gender equity in work and life.

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Stick Together 18.10.2009

breebree — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Women in unions; and anti-war resistance. Jennifer O’Donnell-Parisi, Women’s Officer at Victorian Trades Hall, about the 25th anniversary of the Anna Stewart memorial project. Michael Eisenscher, National Co-ordinator of US Labor Against the War, about how American union activists are mobilizing against the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Finally Iraqi union leaders Rassim Alwadi and Fallah Alwan, about how occupying forces are preserving the anti-union legislation of the Saddam Hussain regime.

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Stick Together 11.10.09

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:09:00 -0700

Today Clare Martin, Australian Council of Social Services CEO, discusses unemployment benefits and the struggle many of Australia’s unemployed face in trying to live hundreds of dollars below the poverty line. We also explore the recent furore created when AMA president Andrew Pesce said that doctors should be conducting uniform health checks on kids rather than maternal health nurses and get the latest on the new Equal Opportunity Bill to be introduced next year.

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Stick Together 04.10.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:00:00 -0700

The right to strike. We talk to Chris White, advocate for the right to strike from Australian National University. We also speak to Shirley Winton from the Communications, Electrical and Plumbers Union about the difficult processes that unions must undertake in order to strike legally. Finally we hear from Darcey Waller, Bus Official with the NSW Transport Workers Union about the wild cat strike at Busways in Blacktown.

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Stick Together 27.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0700

AWU National Secretary Paul Howes on the need for a National Asbestos Taskforce; AMWU climate activist Chris Breen on the collapse of Solar Systems; Greenpeace’s John Hepburn on the Dirty Kev campaign; UFU Industrial Officer Greg Pargeter the need for more professional firefighters in outer Melbourne.

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Stick Together 20.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0700

This week Stick Together interviews Joan Doyle, Victorian secretary of the Communications division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbers Union (CEPU) about their ongoing dispute with Australia Post. We also talk to Belinda Tkalcevic, Industrial Officer at the ACTU about Equal Pay Day for women which took place on 1st September.

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Stick Together 13.09.09

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:09:00 -0700

The latest threat to worker safety. Victoria Trades Hall Council OHS campaigns officer speaks about the harmonisation of the various state and territory OHS laws to a nationally consistent model law. Also Mari Coleman from the National Foundation for Australian Women about the continuing pay disparity between men and women. And Climate Change and coal workers: John Parker from the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council ensuring coal workers in the Latrobe Valley aren’t forgotten in the transition away from coal.

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Stick Together 6.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0700

This week on Stick Together we look at the issue of the work rights for international students in Australia. We interview Mohamed Rashid, member of the UNITE union and former 7-Eleven employee in Geelong, Victoria, as well as Liz Thompson author of the UNITE union’s submission to the Senate Inquiry into the welfare of international students. We also discuss an upcoming conference in Sydney which will examine radical worker responses to the economic crisis.

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