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/

With One Nation setting the agenda on the Immigration numbers in Australia spare a thought for those people who are baring the brunt of the One Nation assault - immigrant workers. Today we hear voices of people experienced in the special brand of exploitation reserved for the latest immigrants arriving on Australian Shores.  

Learn about QUT NTEU struggle to win better conditions, workloads and conditions in their current bargaining. Also travel back in time to February 2005, to hear an archival recording of Stick Together on former prime minister John Howard's industrial relations reforms.

Today we follow-up on the Victorian legislation designed to attack the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union hereThen we report on Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) in Victoria's fight against the State's largest disability housing homes provider Scope. On Friday 11/9, workers from 35 disability housing homes walked off the job and rallied outside Scope’s headquarters. Workers and their union have been in negotiations for a new EBA for 2 years here 

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. 

It is with pride and pleasure that we bring an interview with an important First Nations figure in Health in Australia AND a staunch unionst, Dr Aunty Lyn McIness. Below is 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.Who is Dr Aunty Lyn McIness? (3 minutes and 6 seconds)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%200.mp3] Mentors, The Early Days, The Constitution, United Nations, Challenging Stigma, Community Governance, Women Organisers, Dangers of Government Funding and Stolen Gen (28 minutes and 49 seconds)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%201.mp3] Child Removals and Younger Generations (10 minutes and 39 seconds)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%202.mp3] Working Life, Building the Health Service, Government Money in ACCO's  and Unionism (26 minutes and 14 seconds)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%203.mp3] Stolen Gen, Racism, Working Life Stories and Politics (17 minutes)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%204.mp3] Legacey and More Life Stories (16 minutes)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%205.mp3] VALS and Aboriginality (9 minutes and 9 seconds)[jwplayer|file=/sites/default/files/show/user187/Aunty%20Lynn%20podcast%206.mp3] Interviewer, Amy Aednat CiaraGuest, Dr Aunty Lyn McInnesSpecial thanks to Tim Gooden 

CPSU Vic rally outside Victorian Parliament to Save VicHealth hereIn New South Wales rank and file members of the Nurses and Midwives Federation the ANMF rallied in George St Central Sydney 26th July expressing anger at AHPRA their accreditation body, for adopting, the IHRA definition of antisemitism here.Damian, an ANMF Vic member talks about his trip to help in Gaza earlier this year and the need to support Palestians against Israeli aggression here.