Living Incomes For Everyone

This week we talk to Jayden from Anti-Poverty Network about the Living Incomes For Everyone campaign, a cross organisation campaign involving activist organisations, NGOs, and unions, to raise welfare payments to a minimum of $1100.

Let them hug their kids.

We talk with Kirsty from United Workers Union about how the federal government plans to take the razor to the Child Education Sector. This effects predominately women workers; those that work there and those that rely on them to support their families. As well as affecting the children, when the workers don't have enough to take care of themselves, it makes it difficult to take care of others. It is simply a continuation of the government's contempt for women and children.

We also have interviews with Sam Woripa Watson and Fletch to take you to the frontlines of the struggle to free 120 refugee workers who have been detained indefinitely at a hotel at Kangaroo Point for eight months, this is in addition to the seven years they spent in the dark stains on the history of humanity that are the Manus and Nauru detention centres.

You can't pay bills with exposure

On today's show Bill and Hannah chat with Carl from Musicians Australia about Musicians organising for fair paid work. They also discuss the Black Lives Matter rally and workers action from ETU, The Services Union, CFMEU, Unions NSW and workers standing up and fighting back around the world. Stick around to the end as Bill doesnt hold back on his rant about our Scallywag of the Week.

Black Lives Matter

“The murder of George Floyd is a lit match to the fuel that has built up over decades” - Sam Watson of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance  spoke with Bill about the Black Lives Matter - Stop Black Deaths in Custody rally in King George Square this Saturday June 6th from 1pm, where over 10,000 people have responded to the event on Facebook for the Brisbane rally alone.

To protest safely make sure you bring plenty of hygiene gear such as a face mask and hand sanitiser, and stay 1.5m apart from those around you. If you are sick, stay home and support where you can online.

In our second half we spoke about retail and fast food workers around the world standing up and fighting back with action from; Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, Fight for $15 and Unite Union.

50th Episode!

We've come a long way over the last year and today we reach our 50th episode! That's 50 episodes of bringing Meanjin news for the working class, by the working class, and we're looking forward to another 50. This week we've got a bunch of news from our retail and hospitality workers, and more.

Starting today we're going to be editing the music out of this version of the show, this will give our more time sensitive listeners something a bit easier to fit into their days, and it will be more fair to the musicians, who ought to be paid for their labour. However, do not fear music lovers, to listen to our full show you can head over to https://workerspower4zzz.blogspot.com/. This website also has an RSS feed so you can plug it into your favourite podcasting app.

Rank and file fights back against NTEU

This week we are joined by Izzy and Fran, who are rank and file members of the National Tertiary Education Union, to talk about the NTEU Fightback campaign. This is a campaign to vote no to the NTEU's National Jobs Protection Framework, which threatens to cut the pay of workers by up to %15 under the guise of protecting jobs. You can follow the campaign and find out how to get involved at their facebook or twitter.

Songs played
REM - Cant get there from here 0:00:00
Steve Ludkin - Black History 0:15:23
Briggs - Extra Extra 0:20:23
Dianas - Going Gone 0:23:17
When our turn comes - Break the rules 0:36:19
Cable Ties - Hope 0:49:52
Amyl and the Sniffers - Im not a loser 1:00:02
Sonic Youth - Youth against fascism 1:05:06
Idles - Television 1:12:05
Float Therapy - Gaffer Tape 1:28:45
Krave - Alchemy 1:33:49
Sycco - Nicotine 1:43:49
Dicklord - C U Next Tuesday 1:50:35

Vale Jack Mundey

This week on Workers Power we celebrate the life of Jack Mundey, a unionist and communist who was a leading figure of the BLF's green bans. We also talk about a mine explosion that injured five workers, a plan to help the suffering arts industry, the battle against the fascist Turkish state, and more.

Songs played
Dicklord - Boring 0:00:00
Class War - Class Consciousness 0:03:23
Baker Boy - Move 0:13:22
Deekay - Gotta Get Out Of It 0:16:04
When Our Turn Comes - Bring Back The Green Bans 0:24:50
Phil Monsuer - Better Work Better Life 0:36:10
Coalfalls - Stephenson Street 0:48:07
Atlas - Apparations 0:53:25
Cable Ties - Tell them where to go 1:06:25
J-Milla - Unlock the System 1:14:19
Steve Ludkin - Black History 1:22:54
Violent Soho - Easy 1:33:18
Waax - FU 1:46:31