Stick Together

Stick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. Stick Together features interviews with workers, unionists, community campaigners and academics from right across Australia. This week's episode focuses on metro Melbourne council workers taking industrial action we hear from workers and the ASU.

It is with pride and pleasure that we bring PART 2 of an interview with an important First Nations figure in Health in Australia AND a staunch unionst, Dr Aunty Lyn McIness. Below is a link to the yarn between Amy and Aunty Lyn as it happened. The interview has been chopped up into parts to make it easier for you the listerner to navigate. The total legnth of the interview is 1 hour and 45 minutes.https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/doctor-aunty-lyn-mciness-first-nations-trail-blazer-community-controlled

Today we look at the significant attacks against workers and their Unions by the Victorian Government with legislation to attack RAFFWU the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union  and  Police raids on CFMEU organisers here in the past week. We follow with a report on industrial action on two of the leading University campus in Australia with a live report from the MelbUni action here.. But first a startling news item about the 28 hour week at DP World here.

In today's programme we report from the second 24 hour stoppage by Victorian Allied Health Workers. But before we do that let's look at what the legacy media likes to call the Cost of Living Crisis.

Coming up today, we'll have our regular Union News, looking at some of the industrial disputes happening around Australia.And our main interview today takes us to Western Australia's Pilbara.We're going to be talking about the recent industrial action by BHP workers at Port Hedland, and what it might mean for the future of unionism in one of Australia's most important mining regions.And we're joined by someone particularly well placed to talk about that.Our guest is Alexis Vassiley — a unionist, socialist, academic and industrial relations researcher at Edith Cowan University, and the author of Striking Ore: The Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara.Alexis was previously on Stick Together when Striking Ore was released, so today's conversation is really a return to that story — but this time we're looking at what happens when workers in the Pilbara start striking again.