Stick Together

The cuts to Jobseeker will throw social security recipients to below poverty payments. The cuts to Jobkeeper imperil a million workers. We report on rallies calling for the breaking of the poverty machine held around the country with the cut to Jobseeker and Keeper payments at the end of March.

The 31st of March is the Transgender Day of Visibility. For this week's episode Tilde will interview a Dani Cotton from the NTEU about the industrial issues trans people face, the particular challenges for the higher education sector, and the opporunities for social movement unionism as trans people come under attack from religious discrimination legislation.

News on the Omnibus Bill, Hungry Panda riders and more, and we take a look at how today's apprenticeships don't look anything like they did in 1969. Felicity Sowerbutts from the Young Workers Centre talks about the issues apprentices face today and how we can support them.

We cover some union news and then we hear from a 94 year old woman about her thoughts on work, being a worker and what she thinks of the aged care system.

Seattle City Light hired 10 women for the first time in the 1970's and fired them because of rampant sexism.  It ended in a 7 ½ year legal battle for reinstatement of the women workers. We go to the Melbourne launch of Ellie Belew's book High Voltage Women, published by Red Letter Press, which tells the story of these heroic women workers.

This week we speak to Josh Cullinan, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, RAFFWU, about casualisation, wage theft and the government's proposed omnibus bill.

Have you ever thought about the health of the people driving the trucks that keep the economy moving? This week we look at the first major survey of truck drivers which shows shocking results for Australia’s most common job for men.We include a tribute to Anne Feeney (1951-2021).

This week we cover news about wage theft, the gig-economy, forced labour and as always workers standing up for their rights. I also talk with Dave Fox from Bendigo Trades Hall about Victoria's first workplace death for 2021.

We caught up with Bernie Constable a shearer and member of the Shearers and Rural Workers Union. Today we get another perspective on what is happening for an industry affected by apparent labour shortages because of covid.

We look at the cuture war surrounding Invasion Day, reflect on the First Nations struggle in 2020 and examine two massive strikes of Indigenous workers during the 20th century.