Episode 149: Corporations fight secure work and better pay, Joyce leaves Qantas burning, economic growth and good news on solar glass

Van Badham and Ben Davison examine the government's bill to close
the loopholes that are letting corporations take $9 billion from
workers through forced casualisation, sham contracting, gig
exploitation and legal chicanery.


With $9 billion on the line corporations are fighting back with
some of the weirdest and most easily disprovable lies
imaginable.  Van and Ben breakdown why the corporate bosses
are investing millions in ads to attack the improvements for
workers.


Workers are fighting back to secure the pay that should be theirs
by join their union at australianunions.org.au/wow and getting
involved in the campaign to win over the cross bench.


Alan Joyce is no longer CEO of Qantas!  As of today a new
CEO has started and inherited an airline that is, in a strategic
sense, on fire.  With law suits from workers, consumers and
the government, a potential senate inquiry, an ageing fleet and a
brand so damaged it is less trusted than its wholly owned budget
version the Qantas story is in heavy turbulence.


The latest GDP growth figures have been released so Ben and Van
put them into the context of Australia's overall economic
situation and are pleased to find Australia has grown more than
five of the G7 countries.


Plus there is good news about solar glass!


And Van gives a shout out to all of our Cadre and Extend the
Reach supporters who have gone to
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