Stick Together

On Tuesday June 16th Melbourne city was awash with the Blue of VAHPA  and the Red of MSAV. In an historic joint industrial action the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and the Medical Scientists Association took to the streets calling on the Victorian Government to pay the public health sector a fair wage comparable to other States in Australia. Stick Together was there

Stick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. Stick Together features interviews with workers, unionists, community campaigners and academics from right across Australia. ASU members fighting to change the award and conditions across the community sector. We hear from delegates and Union officials from the sector.

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Parks Victoria workers, after a year in negotiations have been forced to take action refusing an offer that would lock in lower pay and conditions, and put them behind colleagues in other parts of the Victorian public sector. The same level paid a lower rate.Adding insult to injury the executive branch of Parks Victoria are paid at the broader Victorian Public Service wage rates. Stick Together reports from the action held at the foot of the high rise in the Melbourne CBD at 300 La Trobe street on Monday 25th of May. 

Two issues this week with a common theme.First the Australian Nurses and Midwives Federation branch in South Australia the ANMF SA has stepped up industrial action after the returned Labor Government in South Australia were unable to negotiate better pay and conditions after returning to office.  We speak with CEO/ Secretary ANMF SA Elizabeth Darbars hereIn Victoria the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (VAHPA) are outraged at the Allan Government’s budget for failing to address gender inequality in the largely female workforce. Industrial protected action is in process. We speak with Secretary VAHPA Andrew Hewat here