18 January 2022

This week we chat with Jarrod Abbot from TWU about Sunbus workers out on the grass to force Sunbus back to the negotiating table with a fair deal.

• Links to what we talked about
• NSW police must ask Indigenous status
• Ipswich waste workers win
• QTU prevents extension of work year
• ACTU threatens strike to improve covid measures
• Patrick Terminals threatens to half capacity during supply chain crunch
• Wildcat strike in Turkey
• Beekeepers (and bees) protest
• McDonalds CEO says workers don't need a union

11 January 2022

This week we talk to Neil Frost from the Brisbane Labour History Association about the Red North, that rebellious period of North Queensland history which began in the 1920s and culminated in the election of Communist Fred Paterson to the Queensland Parliament as the Member for Bowen. In those years the North was known as a centre of radicalism, with militant strikes, campaigns against fascism, movements of the unemployed and the growth of the Communist Party.

• Links to what we talked about
• Protestors demand child prison Don Dale be shut down
• QTU statement against the proposal to extend school for a week
• UWU statment in support of arrested NagaWorld strikers in Cambodia
• Joint statement calling for release of NagaWorld strikers
• APN meeting - 17th January
• Free the refugees protest - 19th January
• Counterprotest to anti-vaxxers - 22nd January