Stick Together

Today Stick Together is going to the recent hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Job Security link.The focus is on Amazon. What happened to the union vote at the Amazon Bessemer Warehouse?What is Amazon Flex and how does it exploit workers and undermine the delivery industry?

This week there's heaps of news and then we catch up on some regional news from Dave Fox, Vice-President of Bendigo Trades Hall Council.

We’ll hear from Lara Watson the National Indigenous Officer at the Australian Council of Trade Unions the ACTU who has been part of a four-year campaign to have the CDP in it’s present form to be stopped. We will also hear some comments from some speakers at the recent ACOSS the Australian Council of Social Service budget reply seminar as they wonder aloud at what the Federal Government might have in mind.

On Friday May 21 the School Strike for Climate Change rallies were held in 50 sites across Australia including the Northern Territory, Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia, NSW, South Australia, the ACT, and Victoria. Major Cities and Provincial Centres. A call for action with Union representatives calling for a just transition to good jobs in an Australia no longer dependent on fossil fuel industries. We go to the Sydney and Melbourne rallies to hear from Union voices.

Members First Campaign is contesting the leadership of the Manufacturing Division of the CFMMEU in contested election - the first in over thirty years.#TheirBudget, Our Lives - the Australian Unemployed Workers Union and the Anti-Poverty Network Budget reply.

Last week the Young Workers Centre rallied Apprentices and their supporters together to kick off a campaign calling for change to a work-place culture which puts them at risk for their lives and their future. We hear some of their stories and the solution to this wicked state if affairs.

Today we cover two events that happened last week:  International workers Memorial Day & May Day celebrations that mark International Workers Day.

We look at ageism and how it affects older workers and the EveryAGE Counts Campaign which is working against negative trends.

The regulation of cargo ships came into sharp focus this month when two ships were detained because they lacked fuel and food and amenities for their crews. We speak to Ian Bray from the the ITF about the situation.We also look at what is at stake for the SA Ambulance Employees Association as they call for the end of ambulance ramping in their State.

I talk with Max Ogden, author of "A long view from the left" about his role in the union movement and his passion for bringing arts into the workplace and industrial democracy.