On this week's show we talk to Jane Green from Vixen Collective and Elena Jeffereys from Respect Inc about  sex work and how these workers organise in a space which has legal barriers faced by no other group of workers in Australia. These collectives work to support and better sex worker rights in regards to legal, health, industrial, civil concerns. We also here from Lori-anne Sharp from ANMF about the ratios for age care campaign. for more information visit about sex work organisation discussed on this show visithttps://www.respectqld.org.au/ and http://vixencollective.net/for more information and to support the ANMF’s ratio campaign visit http://anmf.org.au/campaign/entry/ratios-for-aged-care

Indigenous workers are fighting CDP - Kara Keyes from the ACTU explains.The closing of factories, unemployment and lack of investment in manufacturing in Australia has been turned around apparently by massive investment in manufacturing weapons and other war requirements. We hear from Jacob Grech who spoke at this years May Day Rally in Melbourne about what this means on the ground.

This week on the show, we head to the UK and speak with union organiser Hazel Nolan about Britain's Trades Union Congress' campaign for a "New Deal for Workers". We discuss the recent mobilisation in London and examine the similarities and differences between the "New Deal" campaign and the Australian movement's efforts to Change the Rules.We also speak with the CPSU's Lisa Newman about what the recent Federal Budget means for workers at Centrelink and those who seek to access the welfare system.An extended interview with Lisa can be found here.

The mass rally of workers in Melbourne on May 9th  - the last event in the Australian Council of Trade Unions 12 days of action to rally Australian workers to the Change the Rules campaign was a cracker. Over 100,000 workers took over Melbourne CBD from unions across the spectrum of Australian work places. Public sector and private sector, public servants and farm workers suits and ties boiler suits and hard hats. Lining up to call for change some balance to industrial laws in this country.

People are ready to take action to change the rules and win more secure jobs and fair pay rises. On today’s show we whip around the country to bring voices and speeches from the May Day celebrations and Change the Rules rallies from the last week in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria.

As we move in to rallies across the country to Change the Rules and celebrate Labour Day workers took a moment to remember their fallen comrades who left for work one day but never returned. We go outside Victorian Trades Hall to the ceremony held on 27th of April. We then go to Queensland where Stick together reporter Craig Gaerett talks with Beth Mohle, secretary of the Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union (QNMU) as they prepare for their rally on May the 7th.

This week on the show, in addition to your wrap of union news, we take you to the all-delegates meeting, held at Melbourne Town Hall on Tuesday 17 April. This meeting launched the ACTU's 12 days of action to change the rules.  We hear from rank and file delegates from both inside and outside, including excerpts from speeches delivered at the meeting.

Stick Together in step with the ACTU call for 12 Days of Action to change the rules we have a special feature on a monumental strike action recently carried out in West Virginia by teachers who took illegal strike action and won pay and conditions for public workers in their state. Their actions have seen other teachers also standing up in other states in America calling for their rights as we speak. What happened? How did they win? Are there lessons for us in their fight back?12 days of action to change the ruleshttps://www.australianunions.org.au/12_days_of_action

With the Victorian State election looming the state’s trade union movement is escalating their campaign on the introduction of industrial manslaughter laws in Victoria. Queensland and the ACT have already introduced industrial manslaughter laws but currently there is little justice for Victorian workers who are killed at work due to negligence. Paul Sutton, OH&S lead from Victroian Trades Hall Council and Queensland Council of Unions, Assistant General Secretary Michael Clifford, join the show to discuss these laws and the union campaigns surrounding them. Change the Rules : www.australianunions.org.au/12_days_of_actionUnited Voice Portable LSL: www.unitedvoicevic.org.au/portableleaveMEAA Make it Australia: https://makeitaustralian.com/Sign the industrial manslaughter law petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/make-industrial-manslaughter-a-crime

After some news we go to the biggest walk off by early childhood educators in Australia held on Tuesday 27th March. The fight for equal pay for the workers started in Victorian with United Voice members across the country now joining the protest. Centres in Brisbane, Darwin, Canberra, Sydney, Horbart, Adelaide and Perth were joined by rural centres with over 6,000 early educators marching. Stick Together was at the Melbourne rally.News1. Port Kembla Coal Terminal get go ahead to terminate eba2. Yakult win3. TWU unfair dismissal cases against Deliveroo - when is an employee an independent contractor?4. Vic Libs do fire workers wrong.5. USA Teachers take illegal strike action now.