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.

In this episode of Stick Together, Amy chats with fellow 3CR presenter about their experience of piece-rate conditions. 

Weighing up the economic value of the North West Hup versus environmental damage and loss of cultural assets. We hear from researcher Piers Verstegen here at a talk entitled the Endangered rock art of M urujuga - can it survive held at the Victoria State Library days before the start of a Federal Court case brought by the Friends of Australian Rock Art (FARA) against the Federal Labor decision to preference Woodside's gas extension to 2070 in the North West Shelf.We now go to part of a conversation here we had with Breanna Dempsey, a NTEU delegate from Monash University, and David Gonzales, President of the Melbourne University Branch of the NTEU, as they embark on a campaign to be elected to the Victorian executive of their Union under the banner Branches Lead ticket.

On June 17th the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) announced that it was adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism. Nick Hanna, an experience human rights lawyer and part of the Civil Liberties Defence Centre gave a briefing to health workers around the politics behind the AHPRA decision how it affects them at work

We have two reports today.One is a reflection on the Australian Education Union Vic (AEU) memberships' refusal to accept the Victorian Government pay offer despite the executive of Union's endorsement here.We follow with a look at AUKUS as a Trojan Horse for a take over of Port Kembla and the Central Coast of NSW by a US military base here.

On Tuesday June 16th Melbourne city was awash with the Blue of VAHPA  and the Red of MSAV. In an historic joint industrial action the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and the Medical Scientists Association took to the streets calling on the Victorian Government to pay the public health sector a fair wage comparable to other States in Australia. Stick Together was there

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. ASU members fighting to change the award and conditions across the community sector. We hear from delegates and Union officials from the sector.