Stick Together

This week we hear from Tanya McConvell has she recalls her stay amongst the people responsible for the Wavehill Walk-off at the time.

This week we hear from Jacqui, a local woman who lost her husband in a workplace accident. We also hear from Yorta Yorta woman Dr Mishel McMahon speaking at the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Conference about what care, community and labour mean to her as a first nations person.

Two reports today the first about journalists and their safety in the field as we mark the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh here followed by a look at the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector with the release of a new report Meeting Skills Shortages in an Expanding ECEC Industry here.

On this week's episode host James Brennan interviews Victorian Socialist candidate Jerome Small about what it is like for a socialist to run in a federal election and to hear what it's like on the ground heading into the federal election.

This week we visit a memorial commemorating the Rana Plaza disaster. It was on Tuesday April 24th Labour Safety Day in Bangladesh, but we were at Quality Tops in Reservoir, Melbourne where a group of clothing workers bowed their heads remembering the over 1,000 Bengalese’s worker crushed to death when the building they were working in collapsed nine years ago. It was a reminder that worker solidarity is International.  Workers International Memorial Day followed on April 28th where again the vow was to remember the dead and fight like hell for the living with the week finishing with May Day Celebrations around the World, we hear some voices from the Melbourne rally outside Victoria Trades Hall voicing their views on why it was important to be there and what the future fight looks like in Australia.

In today's program we hear voices of Temporary Visa workers,  from Matt Kunkel from the Migrant Worker's Centre and about a new move by the Victorian Government to provide sick leave for Casual workers.

In today's program we hear voices of temporary visa workers and then hear from Matt Kunkel from the Migrant Worker's Centre and a new move by the Victorian Government to provide sick leave for Casual workers which is a policy lever being employed to push back on the free ride employers have been taking when it comes to their employees’ health.

Concluding the series on the Australian Education sector James Brennan interviews Briley Sharp Vice Presidnet of the primary sector of the Australian Education Union.

First up we hear from the National Secretary of the Australian Education Union Correna Haythorpe about the slashing of Federal funds to Public Education The racially discriminatory Community Development Program has been renewed until July 2024. I spoke to Lara Watson, ACTU Indigenous Officer for some background on the scheme and what this new announcement now means for people on remote communities

Today we feature voices from the School Strike for Climate Action held on Friday 25th March but first some Union news.