Podcasts about electrical trades union

Welcome to the Monday Breakfast show for Monday October 28th, 2024.  Last week, Eric spoke with Myles Russell-Cook about Reko Rennie's REKOSPECTIVE exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia in Fed Square. The pair spoke about the exhibition, the importance of platforming Indigenous artists, toxic masculinity as well as art being inherently political.  This Saturday, there was an anti-military rally on the Geelong waterfront organised by IPAN Geelong & Vic Southwest, and Elbit out of Vic (an initiative of Free Palestine Coalition Naarm), denouncing the push by ALL levels of Government to make Geelong a Military hub under the guise of 'job creation'. We will now hear from Zelda Grimshaw, an antimilitarist organiser with 'Wage Peace/Disrupt Wars' and a core organiser at the recent Disrupt Land Forces mobilisation. Zelda zooms out to discuss links between militarism and climate collapse from a decolonial perspective - bringing us the personal story of Wity Unue, a young man from the highlands of West Papua.The speech mentions an article about Wity's story, which includes the video of him singing with his friends prior to his murder.  [CW* This segment makes mention of military violence].  On Wednesday of last week around 300 workers from the Qantas Engineers Alliance, a coalition of workers from the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, the Electrical Trades Union, and the Australian Workers Union, walked off the job for 24 hours. The strike is part of industrial action that the Qantas Engingeers' Alliance has been taking for weeks and was a response to Qantas' refusal to discuss a new enterprise agreement with the alliance. The current enterprise agreement expirence at the end of June; the alliance is asking for a 5 per cent per year pay rise as well as a 13.5 per cent first-year increase to compensate for three and a half years of wage freezes and to align wage levels with elsewhere in the industry. To talk about the action and the wider campaign for better conditions and wages for workers in the Qantas Engineers' Alliance, Rob spoke with Michael Wright, National Secretary of the ETU on Friday. NSW Police have conducted almost 900 strip searches at train stations since 2016, data released by Redfern Legal Centre last week has revealed. Of the 883 strip searches conducted, a disproportionate number were conducted on First Nations people, making up 9% of all searches. A total of 66 searches involved children aged between 10 and 17. To speak more about the data and the legality of the searches, Rob spoke with Sam Lee, supervising solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre. A class action filed by Inner Melbourne Community Legal launches today to find answers about why the Victorian Government made its decision to 'retire and redevelop' 44 public housing buildings across the state. Lead plaintiff Barry Berih argues that the Victorian Government did not properly consider the human rights of residents when making its decision to demolish the towers. To find out more about the class action Rob interviewed Harry Millward, General Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union. The class action will be taking place today and tomorrow at the Supreme Court on Lonsdale St, with the residents requesting for Community Members to come down in support if possible. You can also find out more at imcl.org.au ; and listen back to the last episode of Raise The Roof on the 3CR website, which presented voices of affected older residents. Raise the Roof is hosted by the Housing for the Aged Action Group, and you can find that previous show at 3cr.org.au/HAAG.      

Electrical Trades Union plans to run a major anti-nuclear ad campaign ahead of the next election, the PM faces criticism over his appearance in the Hawthorn rooms. Plus, Health Services Union campaigns for 12 days of reproductive leave for employees.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien Langford May 13th 2024 RISE UP FOR SMART ENERGY   /    PUSH BACK AGAINST COAL&GAS Rise up at Kirribili House. Smart Energy Conference in Sydney. ETU secretary Interviewand why Australia has missed the boat for nuclear power in this energy transition Music by ECOPELA CHOIR Natasha Abhayawickrama AYCC leader at the Rise Up Gadigal  Rally  May 8th  https://www.aycc.org.au/This was part of 12 days of action nation wide before the budget to demand no hand outs to coal and gas. No permits to new fossil projects.https://www.movebeyondcoal.com/rise_up John Grimes  CE of Smart Energy Council at their Conference and Expo https://smartenergyexpo.org.au/in-person/ Christine Milne  is praised for her huge contribution to getting the right support for the massive energy transition we are achieving. She became part of the Smart Energy Council "Hall of Fame" Allegra Spender at the Smart Energy Council Conference on her People Powered transition and against the Nuclear Trojan Horse. Danny Kennedy https://www.dgfi.unsw.edu.au/danny-kennedy on why this budget must invest in  batteries and infrastructure for the energy transition. Simon Holmes A Court  https://smartenergy.org.au/our-people/simon-holmes-a-court/At the Smart Energy Conference he gave a  detailed argument on why  Nuclear Power in Australia  has missed the boat for this energy Transition and why we should put all our efforts into the Renewable energy transition. Michael Wright - National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union on why this Industrial Revolution has to be different that the first one. " Less Oliver Twist". Annie Mc Loughlin from Stick Together discusses the dangers for unqualified or unsupervised workers in remote solar or wind projects. Michael also spoke at the Smart Energy Conference where they have a big focus on upgrading trade certification.     

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Every time a sparkie walks out of a house, chances are they leave it more energy efficient than when they walked in. But Australia has a shortage of electricians. And we will need 35,000 more sparkies than the 170,000 we already have by 2030, and another 80,000 on top of that by 2050 if we are going to electrify everything. It's a scary prospect but one that Michael Wright, the National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union is optimistic about. Find more information about electrification and home energy efficiency https://switchedon.reneweconomy.com.au

The Electrical Trades Union has welcomed an industrial manslaughter charge against Australia's second largest sugar miller MSF Sugar following the electrocution of a 49-year-old worker in far north Queensland in 2019 and Australia's sugar industry is watching India after the government is understood to be contemplating more export subsidies this year despite an ongoing investigation by the World Trade Organisation.

Monday Breakfast 7 June 2021with Kannagi and JacobAcknowledgement of Country and WelcomeHighlights from Students Strike  Vivien Langford brings us Highlights from the recent national SCHOOL STRIKE 4 CLIMATE. Vivien started the journey at Sydney's Pitt St Uniting Church... Sydney's Pitt St Uniting Church with their support for the recent School StrikePacifica Youth leaders We are Not Drowning - We are FightingAllen Hicks  - National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union speaking there at the recent student strike for climate in Sydney.Gamillaraay Next Generation:Patrick Rudd.  SONG:GET UP! - Millie and Bondi Junction Volunteers who engaged the public in conversations about GAS Errinundra_Alla Turca 02 Jun 2021Ella Tooms speaks with Chris Schuringa from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) about the recent win for the Alla Turca coupe in Errinundra- an injunction came through and logging has stopped.Dirt Radio 01 Jun 2021Sam Cossar-Gilbert from Friends of the Earth joins Phil Evans from Dirt Radio to talk about a historic win that holds the Shell corporation liable for causing dangerous climate change. MUSIC:Little Sunflower by Dorothy AshbyIf It Glitters Its Gold by Dallas WoodsEveryone is Watching by Ajak KwaiBetter Days by  Dallas Woods, Baker Boy, Sampa the GreatPacific Climate Warrior from 350.org  

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW 31ST MAY 2021STOP GASLIGHTING OUR FUTURETypes of climate action : Striking, leafletting and going to jailProduced by Vivien Langford Robert McLean and Gren Barnett for the Climate Action Show collective GuestsSCHOOL STRIKE 4 CLIMATEAllen Hicks National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union. Gamillaraay Next GenerationPacific Climate Warrior from 350.orgPitt St Uniting Church :Youth, Pacific and Religious leaders EXTINCTION REBELLIONViolet Coco Lesley Mosby GET UP!Millie and Bodi Junction Volkunteers who engaged the public in conversations about GAS. Music Greg Barnett " Frog in a Pan "

The recent establishment of the Aotearoa Legal Workers' Union in New Zealand, and its proposed advocacy against minimum wage breaches and workplace sexual harassment and bullying, begs the question: why aren't more Australian lawyers joining legal-specific unions or starting their own such movements? In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Electrical Trades Union of Australia national legal counsel, Alana Heffernan, to discuss the issues in legal practice that may give rise to a need for a lawyer's union, how such advocacy could operate and how to overcome perceived issues with industry-specific unions.  

The large gas and oil sectors in Australia are dominated by global companies. In the last few years, they have launched an offensive against workers in Australia to slash wages and conditions.Longford in the south eastern Australian state of Victoria is the latest flashpoint of this battle. Esso is trying to force its maintenance workers to be employed by a shelf company which would pay them up to 40% less in wages and introduce brutal shifts that would see workers working up to 4 weeks straight.We talk to Dane Colman, a maintenance workers with the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria, about their 5 months long community assembly and the dynamics and impacts of their struggle.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

The Brisbane City Council has "locked out" members of the Electrical Trades Union the ETU for taking legal protected action over roster changes. University Students and Pensioners rallied against the most recent Federal Budget.

Labour updates of workers struggles in the Asia Pacific region.Interview with Damian King, Electrical Trades Union organiser in Echuca - Victoria, on the lock out of workers by the global dairy giant Parmalat as it tries to cut workers wages and conditions.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.First interview is with Steve Diston, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria, on the continuing dispute at the CUB brewery against outsourcing and its international links and significance.Second interview is with Nick McLellan, journalist and long time activist, and the production of a documentary, titled Kirisimasi, on the continuing issue of radiation exposure and sickness among Fiji service personnel from the UK atomic tests.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Matthew Boyd, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria, on how Filipino migrant workers were told not to join a union by the giant engineering company Thiess, and the difficulty of obtaining justice for migrant workers in Australia .Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links 

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Steve Diston, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union, on the fight by 50 workers to oppose outsourcing at the giant Carlton United Brewery Company in Melbourne, Australia.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

The NSW election was won by the Mike Baird-led Liberal National coalition and the 99-year lease of NSW's transmission and distribution network is all set to go ahead. On the show this week we hear from Electrical Trades Union state secretary Steve Butler about the impact of the sell-off on workers, the community and the environment. We'll also hear from Australian Services Union assistant national secretary Greg McLean about electricity privatisation trends and impacts across the country and and further afield. First though we're going to take a look at the current trend towards privatisation in Australia through a global and historial lens. Professor Sharon Beder is the author of Power Play: The Fight to control the world's electricity and works at the University of Woollongong.

The Australian Building and Construction Commission, the ABCC, was well armed and tough. This was especially so for the bully-boy unions in Victoria and Western Australia, where builders had to pay for peace, says Andrew Bolt. KPMG says that as a result the community was $5.9 billion a year better off. Labor promised to get rid of it in the 2007. Kevin Rudd didn’t move fast enough for the union bosses. Money talks. At the last election the Electrical Trades Union gave a $325,000, not to Labor, but to the Greens. You see, the Greens had opportunistically promised to help abolish the ABCC. Its failure? It had brought peace to the construction industry. The union bosses - and the Greens - didn’t like that. Presumably the ABCC was doing terrible things to the environment. Or do the Greens support thugs punching police horses? As Andrew Bolt says, Julia Gillard understood this unsubtle message. She delivered.. The powerful ABCC was wound up . Almost as soon as this happened, the thugs were out on the streets. Just as the people smugglers took their cue from Rudd and Gillard winding up the Pacific solution. The ABCC was replaced with the Fair Work Building and Construction agency. There’s that word “fair” again. It means weak and useless. This is the tactic of the Gillard and Rudd governments. They create powerless agencies like Fair Work Australia. Remeber Fair Work Australia took over three years to investigate Craig Thomson and the Health Services Union. Even then they didn't produce a brief on evidence the prosecutors could use. Remember too, the powerless Corgill inquiry into the five or so billion dollars BER rort. Compare that with the open powerful Royal Commission into the Australian Wheat Board under a respected judge which John Howard established. He also agreed that if the judge needed additional terms of reference these would be given. The hearings gave Kevin Rudd an evening TV platform to attack the government. But John Howard did the right thing Is it the government doesn’t know what it is doing? Or are open borders, thugs on the streets and thugs ruling the construction industry part of the Gillard government agenda? To read Andrew Bolt's comment go to: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/union-thugs-free-rein-to-punch-police-horses/story-e6frezz0-1226461084986