The Stick Together Show
Heard on 3CR (855AM)
Saturday 15/7/2000 at 10.30am & Monday 17/7/00 at 6am (rep)
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The Stick Together Show is national community radio's weekly look at issues
of industrial, social & workplace justice. The Stick Together Show is
produced at the studios of 3CR, with the assistance of the Community
Broadcasting Foundation & the Search Foundation.
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CENTRELINK & THE OLYMPICS
Centrelink staff in Sydney have been instructed to advise unemployed people
in the surrounding region that 'if they don't get a job during the
Olympics, they never will' & to rigorously enforce job placement and
breaching penalty quotas - according CPSU Community Services Section
Secretary, Mark Gepp. He discusses the status of Centrelink in 2000 and the
pressures of current federal government ministerial policy on staff and
'clients', particularly in the lead up to the Olympics.
JOY MINING MANUFACTURING
70 Workers at the Joy Mining Manufacturing plant at Moss Vale in NSW are
about to enter their 4th month of being locked out after negotiations over
their expired Enterprise Agreement broke down earlier this year. Worldwide
it's estimated that 2500 workers for subsidiary companies of Joy
Australia's parent company have lost their jobs. Meanwhile, the Moss Vale
workers remain strong but in need of urgent financial support to maintain
their stand. Alan Ward (AMWU State Organiser for NSW) explains. Ring (02)
4229 7611 to express your support or donate to Commonwealth bank account
number: 062 576 (ID No. 101039830 - "Joy Workers' Fighting Fund")
UNIONISTS AGAINST CORPORATE TYRANNY(UACT)
UACT is a recently formed coalition which aims to educate, inform and
mobilise rank-and-file unionists to fight against exploitation and
oppression by transnational and multinational corporations and the
anti-worker policies of national governments and international agencies
such as the World Bank & the IMF. Melanie Sjoberg explains how these issues
affect our daily lives and workplaces and how all unionists can be involved
in such issues.
Ring (02) 9690 1230 or write to PO Box 348, Broadway, NSW, 2007 for more
information or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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For information / with information or to purchase tapes of the program,
contact:
Meredith Butler [Producer]
phone - (03) 9419 8377 fax - (03) 9417 2247
e-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [please mark: "attention: stick together
show"]
post - STG, c/o 3CR, PO Box 1277, Collingwood 3066.
Where you can hear the show...Melbourne, on 3CR 855am, Saturdays at
10.30am, repeated Mondays at 6am - Gippsland, on 3GCR, Thursdays at 11.30am
- Canberra, on 2XX, Tuesdays at 6pm - Omeo, on 3HCR, Tuesdays at 6pm -
Adelaide, on 5UV, Wednesdays at 2pm - Sydney, on 2SER, Wednesdays at 8pm -
Brisbane, on 4ZZZ, Thursdays at 2.30pm - Bundaberg, on 4BCR, Thursdays at
11.00am - Woomera, on 5RRR - Perth, on 6RTR - Alice Springs, on 8CCC
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