Stick Together

Stick Together

Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.

Episodes

Workers get the points in fair work battle

August 19, 2025
James speaks with former ASU (Australian services Union) delegate Jeff about his battle in fair work to win for his workplace. A winning story that took their fight to fair work to battle it out for 5 years before winning back unpaid wages to members. We also hear some current industrial actions in Union news.  
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BWS & Dan Murphy's No Vote & Palestine is Union Business

August 12, 2025
We talk with Josh Cullinan, Secretary of RAFFWU the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union about the no vote in the upcoming eba negotiations with BWS & Dan Murphy's. We follow with Palestine as Union business with a speech by Arthur Rorris from the South Coast Labour Council at the most recent Sydney Palestine Rally.  
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CFMEU Update & Stop the Demolitions

August 5, 2025
Two stories this week the first looks at the CFMEU Administration and a move at the latest delegates meeting in Victoria to have the process of elections reignited and a move to show the Administration the door.The second story takes us to the large Save Public Housing Rally held on Aug 2 in Melbourne where the Victorian Government is determined to hand over public land to private developers, knocking down 44 Public Housing Towers ...
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NSW workers taken for a ride

July 29, 2025
This episode Host James Brennan speaks on the cuts to NSW transport workers, as we hear from the NSW public service association industrial manager Nathan Bradshaw about the proposed cuts to public sector roles in the transport sector in NSW. 
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The Precarious Migrant Worker with Panos Theodoropoulos

July 22, 2025
Speaker Panos Theodoropoulos will discuss major themes in his research, drawing from his immersive ethnographic research inside the UK’s warehouses, factories and kitchens. He explores how precarity shapes migrant lives — and how resistance to neoliberal systems still emerges from the ground up. Theodoropoulos will reflect on the intersections of migration, precarity, bordering and organising. 
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Aldi Sacks HSR / NTEU & CPSU Members Voice Victories

July 15, 2025
Two Union Worker victories and the beginning of what is shaping up to be a Union wide stoush over the sacking of an HSR at an Aldi store for doing her job. The two victories are the win by the NTEU National Tertiary Education Union in the Federal Court for Monash University to pay back pay to it's teaching staff and the historic win of the CPSU Members Voice by a landslide which pushed out an executive that had held on for 32 years...
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CFMEU Women & Workers' Memorial

July 8, 2025
Two stories this week the first looks at the CFMEU Administration & it's decisions in relation to CFMEU Women.Our second story goes to the proposed new Worker's Memorial to be built beside the historic eight hour monument across from Victoria Trades Hall. We speak to Jill Anholt, sculpture artist, whose concept has been chosen for the site.
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Save the Merri-bek Library Social Worker

July 1, 2025
On Monday 23rd June, community members rallied at Coburg Town Hall to save the social worker position at Merri-bek libraries.In February, Merribek Council ended the successful 2-year pilot program for a permanent social worker in the library, and had refused to commit to the program. The protest called on the council to fund a full time in-house library social worker in this time of multiple compounding crises, recognising that lib...
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HACSU & CFMEU Fight

June 24, 2025
Two stories this week first we go to the Vic HACSU rally the second stop work action this year for HACSU Health and Community Service Union workers working in mental health fighting cuts and wage disparity across the sector. The second story is a look at the High court Ruling that cements the legality of the enforced administration of the CFMEU Construction and General Division by the Federal Labor Government. 
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The modern working class

June 17, 2025
On this episode of Stick Together hosted by James Brennan we hear some union news covering industrial actions across the country. And we hear a talk from the Marxism conference that analysis what the modern working class looks like, countering right wing assertions of the demise of the working class and avenues to fight back against the system.
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Golden Plains BMS Wind Farm Dispute

June 10, 2025
Two reports today. First up Union reaction to the Native Title Tribunal in NSW clearing the way for multinational mining behemoth Santos to start mining the Pilliga Forest for gas in the face of opposition from Traditional Owners, the Gomeroi people in May.Secondly we go to the Golden Plains Wind Farm dispute between the CFMEU and the Danish multinational BMS.
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Public Service Job Cuts

June 3, 2025
Today we go to the rally by Voice for Members CPSU (Community and Public Sector Union) on the steps of Victorian Parliament Wednesday 28th May pushing back against announced cuts of 3,000 public service jobs in the recent Victorian State budget.
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Getting the Boot Off the Neck

May 27, 2025
Two reports today. The first takes us to Altona North in Melbourne to a community picket supporting food workers at one of the largest bakery companies operating in Australia who began stop work action on May 14 for a 15% wage increases over three years.Our second story takes us back to the historic 1998 Waterfront dispute with Patrick’s with some mind blowing facts about the extent Government and Employers will go to to crush work...
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1917 General Strike

May 20, 2025
This week's episode of Stick Together brings you stories from the frontline with union news followed by a talk from the Marxism conference on the 1917 General Strike in Australia. 
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4-Day Work Week

May 13, 2025
Today we are exploring the issue of a 4-day work week with some experiences from Unions in the UK.
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May Day 2025

May 6, 2025
On today’s program we wrap up May Day Events around the world and of course, right here in Australia. Happy May Day Comrades! May the struggle continue
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Remembering Rana Plaza

April 29, 2025
On 24 April 2013 the eight-story Rana Plaza building in Dhaka Bangladesh collapsed. The owners of a number of garment factories in the building had ignored the most basic safety regulations, and forced workers to keep working when it was clear the walls were cracking. In Bangladesh, workers are paid monthly, at the end of the month. The collapse happened on the 24th, and workers were threatened with non payment of wages, if they di...
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Paid Parental Leave for grieving parents

April 22, 2025
When Chris Breen and his wife lost their baby Priya when she was just six weeks old, they needed time to grieve.But while Chris was still able to take his planned three months of parental leave, his wife, who goes by the name Priya’s mum, was forced back to work.That's because her planned paid maternity leave was cancelled by her employer. The two embarked on an important but very emotional campaign to ensure that paid parental lea...
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Striking Ore: The Rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara

April 15, 2025
This episode with host James Brennan brings you union news and an interview with Alexis Vassiley author of the new book Striking ore 'The Rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara'. Striking ore focuses on the workers themselves including their agitating for hard won breakthroughs in pay, conditions and safety. 
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Victory to the Philippines Nexperia workers

April 1, 2025
After a 74-hour strike by 1,000 workers, the Nexperia Philippines Workers’ Union secured the reinstatement of union leaders Mary Ann Castillo (president) and Girlie Battad (union official), along with a PHP50 (US$0.87) wage increase over three years. My guest today is Rochelle Porras from Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research in the Philippines.
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