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Amidst the tumult of the COVID19 crisis, Australian families were given a glimpse of what a transformation to their lives – universal and affordable early childhood education – could bring.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/09/02/early-education-and-childcare/
This week on On the Job, guests from the IMO discuss the 250,000 seafarers stranded by COVID-19 travel restrictions, and thier efforts to support them.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/08/18/the-pandemics-forgotten-seafarers/
Journalist and host of Primer podcast Alex Press joins On the Job to discuss the worker exploitation fuelling the billionaire space race.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/08/04/billionaire-space-race/
The PM must put aside magical thinking and act now protect workers from the econmic realities they face, writes Francies Leach
Recently retired mine worker Rob Foot speaks with On the Job about the damaging effect of labour hire on mining communities.
American journalist and author Sarah Jaffe spoke with On the Job about how ‘doing what you love’ can be a recipe for worker exploitation.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/07/14/work-wont-love-you-back/
Interpreter Giuseppina Pungitore spoke with On the Job about the vital work of interpreters and the professional challenges they face.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/07/07/interpreters-covid-and-the-importance-of-being-heard/
ACTU President Michele O’Neil spoke with On the Job about why resisting the Government’s plans to dismantle superannuation is so important.
Ed Husic and Labor are preparing for tomorrow’s work today, and the steps we need to put in place as we come out of a pandemic
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/06/16/how-to-prepare-for-our-working-future-today/
Superannuation is under attack again as the ‘Your Future, Your Super’ legislation reaches the Senate, writes Francis Leach
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/06/15/war-on-super-hinges-on-senate-vote/
Author and anti-inequality Ben Phillips spoke with On the Job about how people, not government, are the key to ending inequality.
Can people with a disability achieve equality in the workplace? Sam Connor is fighting for their rights in a pandemic economy.
Award-winning journalist Ginger Gorman joined On the Job to discuss the plethora of problems journalists face in today’s media landscape.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/05/19/is-journalism-in-australia-under-threat/
ACTU Assistant Secretary Liam O’Brien talks to On the Job about the urgent need to better protect workers from mental health injuries.
Economist Professor Ross Garnaut tells On the Job that while the economy may be coming out of some of its darkest days, we shouldn’t be happy to return to the status quo.
National Assistant Secretary of the AWU Misha Zelinsky joins On the Job this week to discuss how Labor and the union movement can better connect with working Australians to win the next election.
RMIT Professor of Work, Gender & Regulation Sara Charlesworth says rather than a decrease in sexual harassment, evidence suggests “it is just as prevalent, if not more prevalent.”
National Manager of Ethical Clothing Australia Angela Bell says fashion companies and major conglomerates have created an industry of low cost, disposable fashion at the expense of workers.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/04/15/supporting-workers-with-the-clothes-on-your-back/
The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, is not phased by much, but when workers at one of its biggest warehouses in the United States started to organise to join a union, the tech shopping monster lost the plot. US-based journalist Jessa Crispin joins On the Job this week to discuss the campaign by Amazon workers and the company’s attempts to silence critics.
Financial journalist and commentator, Michael Pascoe, says the proposed withdrawal of Government stimulus over the next three years is going to be ‘genuinely scary’.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/04/01/frightening-times-ahead-with-end-of-jobkeeper/
Continued wage theft has been waved through by the Morrison Government after it scrapped its own legislation to deal with the issue last week.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/03/25/morrison-government-green-lights-wage-theft/
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Assistant Secretary, Liam O’Brien, says vaccination is the “only ethical way that we move beyond the pandemic.”
Journalist and media advocate Karen Percy says when it comes to dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace, “it’s time for men to stand up”.
Like most women, speaker and journalist Meggie Palmer felt frustrated when confronted with gender pay gap data. But within the disheartening stats, she also saw possibility.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/03/05/closing-the-gender-pay-gap-theres-an-app-for-that/
Hospo Voice activist Grace Dowling has a clear message when it comes to sexual harassment in the workplace, “Just because it’s everywhere, just because it’s common, just because it’s rife, doesn’t mean it’s fine.”
Writer and academic Professor Catherine Lumby says shifting workplace cultures of sexual harassment is “a very, very long historical process.”
Senior Associate at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers Patrick Turner joined On the Job with Francis Leach & Sally Rugg this week to discuss some of the legal questions around working from home.
After spending time abroad working on solar energy projects in early 2000s, Lucinana Giangiordano decided to return to Australia to set up his own solar company, but it wasn’t the simple transition he had hoped for.
Australia has the potential to create 76,000 new clean energy jobs in regions hardest hit by COVID-19, according to researcher for the Climate Council, Dr Simon Bradshaw.
A long-time climate action campaigner, Dr Bradshaw spoke with On the Job with Francis Leach & Sally Rugg about the economic opportunities of a transition to clean energy.
It’s the Xmas edition of On the Job, so Francis and Sally meet the one person who is definitely happy to be working Xmas Day – Santa.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/20/meet-the-hardest-working-man-in-snow-business/
Director of the Young Workers Centre, Felicity Sowerbutts, says the Morrison Government’s newly introduced Industrial Relations laws are a “kick in the guts” for already vulnerable young workers.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/17/new-ir-laws-a-kick-in-the-guts-for-young-workers/
This episode; a Victorian Aboriginal owned social enterprise that is a dynamic fashion label managed by health professionals and the Federal Government’s latest industrial relations bill.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/13/clothing-the-gap-and-the-new-3/
This episode; a Victorian Aboriginal owned social enterprise that is a dynamic fashion label managed by health professionals and the Federal Government’s latest industrial relations bill.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/13/clothing-the-gap-and-the-new-2/
We travel to Canberra to talk with Chief Economist and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute, the well known and hugely insightful Richard Denniss.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/07/richard-denniss-on-the-job-ahead-and-sally-mcmanus/
Economic writer for The Guardian Australia, Greg Jericho, says despite reports of an economic bounce back, the post-pandemic economy is a “horror show”.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/04/insecure-work-creating-economic-horror-show/
Shadow Minister for Education and Training, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP says Australians deserve a “better normal” for the sacrifices made during the pandemic including jobs “that are secure with decent pay and conditions”.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/12/02/a-better-normal-after-covid-19/
Shadow Minister for Education and Training, the Hon.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/11/30/investment-in-renewable-energy-a-no-brainer/
There’s a new book, very questionable conditions for food delivery drivers, Sally’s found some low-stress jobs and we chat to Greg Jericho about changing employment thanks to Covid-19.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/11/30/tanya-plibersek-stressful-jobs-christmas-and-greg/
Australia’s most capped netball coach, Lisa Alexander, says it’s time the “weight of numbers” shifted. The highly experienced former Australian Diamonds boss recently applied for the now-filled senior coaching position at AFL club North Melbourne and was told she wouldn’t be receiving an interview.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/11/25/gender-bias-still-a-big-player-in-sport/
As a “get to know you” – we should each do “First Job/Worst Job”, talking
about our first ever job and the job the job from hell we once had.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2020/11/24/first-job-worst-job-and-lisa-alexander-world-champ/
On this day in 1856, Melbourne's Stonemasons fought for – and won – the 8-hour workday as a nationwide industry standard.
Unfair rostering disadvantages workers in insecure work: unions are calling for for roster justice.
