Stick Together

Stick Together

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

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June 23, 2026
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
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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.
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Join us for a special radiothon episode with hot off the press interviews with VAHPA and ASU on their battles for better wages and conditions.Donte to Radiothon! Call 9419 8377https://www.3cr.org.au/donate
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Parks Victoria workers, after a year in negotiations have been forced to take action refusing an offer that would lock in lower pay and conditions, and put them behind colleagues in other parts of the Victorian public sector. The same level paid a lower rate.Adding insult to injury the executive branch of Parks Victoria are paid at the broader Victorian Public Service wage rates. Stick Together reports from the action held at ...
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Two issues this week with a common theme.First the Australian Nurses and Midwives Federation branch in South Australia the ANMF SA has stepped up industrial action after the returned Labor Government in South Australia were unable to negotiate better pay and conditions after returning to office.  We speak with CEO/ Secretary ANMF SA Elizabeth Darbars hereIn Victoria the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (V...
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Tim Gooden by Andy Urquhart On this weeks episode meet former Geelong Trades Hall Secretary, Tim Gooden. We chat and walk through GTH and chat about the towns local union history!Below are mediocre photos I took of the beautiful photos and artworks displayed around the building. Geelong Wool Combing Dispute John Howards Individual Contracts Mass Strike 2005Sandra Kranz Murals WA Solidarity and Unwelcoming John H...
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International Worker's Memorial Day is held on the 28th April. A sobering event marking the passing of workers who died from work related injuries. First we hear from some of the people who gathered to honour the dead, followed by the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen,  then from Lana Cormie, now part of a group with lived experience of loss working to change the system, and ending with some of the remembrance of those who ...
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In this episode of Stick Together we chat with Tash Wark, Secretary of the ASU Vic/Tas Branch about the multi-council campaign they are running in metropolitan Melbourne. We also hear a statement given by Dave Ball in regional town Geelong on the war in Iran. Geelong is quickly becoming one of Australia's biggest defence industry towns with the Geelong Defence Alliance and Geelong on the Rise projects.
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The term critical minerals seems to be everywhere at the moment. Whether in discussions of Trump’s aspirations to annex greenland or the Albanese government's attempts to avoid US tariffs by bolstering US access to Australia’s Lithium, cobalt and other rare earths and critical minerals - it is becoming increasingly obvious that securing access to these natural resources is a top priority of the Trump administration.&nbs...
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April 21, 2026
Like me you might have been blown away by the announcement that the Fair Work Commission was abolishing junior rates of pay in the retail, fast food and pharmacies industries. It was plastered on headlines across legacy media, ACTU and Labor Party sources. But of course the headline isn't the whole story. We spoke to Josh Cullinan from the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union RAFFWU, the only voice at the Commission calling for ...
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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. In this week's episode we bring you union news from around the country and speak to early education delegate and United workers union members first delegate Nicki about the upcoming union election.
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April 8, 2026
In this episode we begin the episode with a great chat with Dr Adrian Marshall from the Grassy Plains Network. We hear the shocking stat 0.56% of Native Grasslands left in Victoria, and that's likely an OVER ESTIMATE! Learn about one of the major contributing factors to their decline which is agencies and corporations wrecking havoc on these sites even when they are responsible for their care and how there is a workforce waiting in...
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Tuesday 24th of March saw the biggest 24 hour stoppage by educational staff in Victorian public schools in history. Represented by the AEU, 98% of members voted yes to the stoppage. The AEU is an industry based union and the members include Education Support Staff, Teachers and Principals. 40,000 educators and their allies took to the streets and raised their voices for a better deal.
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March 24, 2026
This episode examines how war and militarism shape workers’ lives and labour struggles: DP World’s AI automation push threatens over 1,000 skilled port jobs while shifting control of critical supply‑chain infrastructure offshore; Australia’s fuel insecurity—hollowed refineries and a depleted tanker fleet—exposes us to global choke points and the fallout of foreign military campaigns; Victoria’s e...
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On this week's episode of stick together host James brings you Union news from across the country. And we chat with Jewish Australian activist James Crafti who recently travelled to Palestine to connect with activists there.
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In an attempt to undermine the collective amnesia of the working class of it's own history first up we hear from Sean Scalmer here at the launch of his book A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time and follow up with voices of working women at the Melbourne International Working Women's Day Rally here this year.
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In this episode of Stick Together, listen to interviews and speeches from Neighbourhood Houses Victoria's recent rally to raise much needed funds for staff and operations. Following that report learn about the Geelong and Melbourne Strategic assessments. Are they a sign of change in industries working in green spaces or more the same green washing?Neighbourhood Houses Victoria - https://www.nhvic.org.au/post/keep-our-doors-ope...
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In this weeks episode we hear the translations of the statements that were given by members of the USB and CALP among others at the national assembly that was held on the 23rd of January in Genova in support of the then upcoming internationa strike against the drive to war that happened on the 6th of Febuary and the ongoing campaign for the working class to oppose capitalist war.
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Stick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. This week's episode of stick together brigs you union news ad a live recording of the 'members first' campaign launch for the election at the United workers union.
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In this episode of Stick Together Amy shares her experiences and thoughts about gardening and landscaping. This is the beginning of an ongoing project of hers to call out worker and environmental issues in industries that are supposedly doing Earth Care. Examples of industires include, gardening and landscaping, aboriculture, horticulture, conservation and so on.If you are interested in sharing your experiences in these sorts of in...
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