Stick Together

When Amy joined the Stick Together team she was really keen to bring updates in industries that are essential to caring for our planet and today is a special episode on just that. On Sunday the 8th of November, bush workers met up for a barbecue and to discuss unionising the industry in victoria. This was lead by ASU delegates and workers from Nature Links and Acacia Environmental. The day was a social gathering to encourage unionising the sector with other workers from companies offering land management, conservation and bush regeneration services. While there has been some union presence, these unionists are aiming hire than what has currently been done.  Deepest apologies to our regular listeners as there is no union news segment this week but please enjoy these inspiring conversations from the day.

This week we give a view on the political push, across the world, toward the right How working people's angst about the crisis in living standards in Australia is being weaponized against migrants - clouding people's view of what could be called the real and present dangers presented by capital's reliance of AI as the new Industrial Revolution.

We go to the recent DUDC defend Unions Defend the CFMEU meeting held on the 14th of Oct to hear from a fighting Union perspective. We follow with the ceremony held on the 15th of October to commemorate the 56 year anniversary of  the West Gate Bridge Disaster. A disaster that changed work safe laws forever in this country because of the Unions..

Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network. Our featured recording today comes from the 2016 Marxism Conference. It's a talk titled Hidden Histories: Mt Isa, presented by Tim Arnot and supplied to us by Socialist Alternative. Thanks to Socialist Alternative for making this recording available to Stick Together.As the conflict escalated, the Queensland government declared a state of emergency in January 1965, granting police extraordinary powers. The company locked out workers, and the dispute placed enormous pressure on miners and their families. The consequences continued long after the immediate industrial conflict had subsided.

In Todays show we are joined by Thomas Costa, secretary of Unions NSW to discuss Unions NSW report, Working For Free - The New Normal. Unpaid overtime is now common place for the majority of the Australian workforce and things are only getting worse with artificial intelligence.https://unionsnsw.org.au/publication/working-for-free-the-new-normal/