The Stick Together Show
3CR community radio 855AM
Friday, 17th November at 8.30am
Saturday, 18th November at 10.30am
Monday, 20th November at 6am
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Fair Employment Bill
According to recent studies, Victoria has some of the lowest-paid & poorly
treated workers in Australia thanks to the legacy of the former Kennett
Liberal government. A new Bill is before the state parliament which seeks to
redress this situation - to provide protection & a new state IR regulatory
system which will cover approximately one-third of the workforce which lost
any form of award protection when Kennett abolished state awards in 1993.
The Bill went before the lower house of parliament this week. While not
delivering everything workers could hope for, a broad range of groups &
unions have leant their support to this Bill. To explain its significance,
we'll hear from:
* Leigh Hubbard - Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall
* Wendy Sengotta - Director, Jobwatch Community Legal Service
* Annie Delaney - Outworker Coordinator, TCFUA
Welfare reform
As the Federal government moves closer to delivering its anticipated welfare
changes, some of the proposals for which include extending mutual obligation
to sole parents & people on Disability Support payments, benefit recipients
are being left out of the discussions on their future. A national conference
on Welfare Reform was held at Melbourne University last week. Speakers at
the conference included the Minister for Family & Community Services,
Jocelyn Newman, & the author of the much-publicised McClure Report into
Welfare Reform, the recommendations from which are currently being
considered by the government. With tickets to the one-day conference costing
over $200 each, unemployed people & those on other benefits who will be
directly impacted by the proposed welfare changes were obviously excluded &,
when a group of unemployed workers & representatives of community
organisations turned up outside the conference to have a say in the
discussions, they were met by security & barred from entry. Ian McFarlane
(3CR Squatters & Unemployed Workers Show) spoke to several of those present
outside the conference & compiled this report.
For more information about the program, drop in & visit us at:
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sticky
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