EPISODE · Mar 31, 2015
Union busting at Swinburne; Centrelink & Medicare industrial action; SDA deal on penalty rates
from Stick Together · host Diana Beaumont, Colin Long, Lisa Newman, Anthony Main
Swinburne settles court case with NTEU, which alleged adverse action when Swinburne tried to move staff into a subsidiary company, with lower pay and conditions. Centrelink and Medicare workers take 10 days of industrial action nationwide. And labour activists criticise cuts to penalty rates in a template agreement between the SDA and Business South Australia. Interviews with Colin Long, Vic Secretary NTEU, Lisa Newman, deputy president CPSU, and Anthony Main, organiser with Socialist Party and UNITE union.
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Union busting at Swinburne; Centrelink & Medicare industrial action; SDA deal on penalty rates
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