Stick Together

This episode we are featuring the fight for a fair outcome in the South Australian Nurses EBA negotiations and the consequences for Australian jobs with the Federal Government's decision to outsource manufacture of Australian Armed Forces uniforms to China. Before we do though a quick word about the Earthworker Co-opt Walk with the Valley initatitive which kicked off on Sept 19 with a launch at the steps of Victorian Parliament steps.

This week we will be featuring the CSIRO. Staff are being asked to vote on a new EBA which reduces conditions and has salaries falling behind inflation. We follow that with calls for jobs in the green sector for Gippsland as calls for the shutting of the troubled Hazelwood coal mine intensify.

Report on Turnbull Government loss at High Court bid to use foreign workers without visas on offshore oil and gas Shipping but wants to cut Newstart to balance its budget.

A 1,000 days is long enough says the membership of the CPSU. 1,000 days is how long it has taken the Federal Government to not negiotate a new eba for our Federal Public Service. We report on upcoming strike action called for September 9th. We follow this with a look at a victory for playwrights. Yes that's right people in the creative industries need to be represented and the Australian Writers Guild has won a new improved deal through its negoitations with eight of the largest Theatre Companies in Australia.

This edition of Stick Together looks at the fire storm created by the Liberals and their help mate the Murdoch press over the issue of the CFA eba. We will then look at the latest employment figures from the ABS followed by a chat with Robyn Murphy about the feature she is involved in about the heroic fight for equal rights at work for women. Lest we forget.

A call for clean energy jobs in NSW after the defeat of the BHP Billion Caroona Coal Plan for Liverpool Plains, then we go to a dispute that is brewing down by the Yarra at Crown Casino and then to a dispute resolved successful for the Victorian Allied Health Professionals. finally We go to the back streets of Abbotsford Melbourne for a large rally supporting the sacked CUB workers

In today's program we will be revisiting the Wave Hill Walk Off which was the beginning of the modern Aboriginal Land rights movement. Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary on August 19-21 called Freedom Day. It began as a workers right dispute but escalated We will follow this with a speech given by Sally McManus Vice President of the ACTU and the Field Director of the Build a Better Future Campaign.

Coles management was dealt a heavy blow at the hands of the warehousing workers at the massive cold storage facility in Truganina, in Melbourne's West. The 650 employees, backed by the National Union of Workers, went on an indefinite strike action on July 27th, and within 72 hours achieved a favorable agreement. NUW organiser Heath Lamaro, and the NUW delegate on site, Ryan Laws, tell us about the result and how the victory was achieved. We also catch up with ETU organiser Steve Diston about the ongoing dispute at the CUB brewery in Abbotsford

Federal Court ruling against the MUA in the Chevron Gorgon LNG Project dispute over safety issues, Quad bikes the most dangerous killer on farms investigated by the UNSW TARS.

In the 90s and 2000s, we fought against Pauline Hanson and One Nation and won! The  unions have always been at the vanguard of the struggle against fascism and racism -  from workers' militias in Spain during the 1930s, to mobilising against the likes of Hanson  and Reclaim Australia here today. We talk with Michael Clifford from Queensland Council of Trade Unions on the strategies of organizing a fightback against Hanson today. We touch base with Luke Hilakari from the Victorian Trades Hall Council about the aftermath of the Federal Election and the effectiveness of the We Are Union campaign. We finish off with a tribute to the National Union of Workers and their victory at the Parmalat dispute in Longwarry.