205 - Kristin O'Connell

Kristin O'Connell is the Acting Communications Coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. With more than a million Australians unemployed in this time of recession (and depression maybe?), the AUWU has been coordinating a Mutual Obligations Strike and campaigning against the cruel reduction in the JobSeeker payment. Kristin shares her story with me and explains why unemployed workers are workers (and why the AUWU is definitely a union) and just how fucked up and privatised Australia's unemployment "industry" is. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Strike for Climate this Friday! Yeah!  @kristin8X ARTICLE: Australian Unemployed Workers Union calls for strike against ‘pointless and punitive’ job agencies ARTICLE: Australia's jobless to face mutual obligation rule despite few job vacancies ARTICLE: ‘It's a heartless decision’: Morrison government reintroduces welfare mutual obligations ARTICLE: New Disability Support Pension recipients down by almost 60,000 due to Gillard-led crackdown My episode with the AUWU's Jeremy Poxon Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)