Episode 136: Tackling sham contracting and forced casualisation, Aussie content on Aussie screens, The Voice a step closer and good news about hydrogen

Van Badham and Ben Davison are BACK and the struggle continues!
Visy, Australia's largest private company, is still refusing to
make a decent offer to workers after 20 weeks of action and
bosses in the university sector are strategising together to cut
pay and conditions while bosses unions are calling for cuts to
the minimum wage and the right to keep exploiting sham
contracting and labour hire loopholes.


Van and Ben take a look at how sham contracting in the gig
economy, labour hire across multiple industries and forced
casualisation has undermined wages and conditions.  Ben and
Van look at how workers, in union, are campaigning for same job,
same pay laws, rights for platform based workers in the NDIS,
aged care and transport sectors as well as an end to the
loopholes that allow BHP to own a labour hire company it then
uses to engage workers in their mines to do the same work but for
LESS pay.  You can stand up for your job and your wages by
joining your union at australianunions.org.au/wow 


Ben hits a classic rant about the greedflation spiral, Phil
Lowe's high priests of Monetary Policy and why it is time to stop
listening to incompetent Australian executives and start
believing our own eyes when it comes to economics. 


The Albanese Labor government wants to see more Australian
content on Australian screens with proposed laws to make sure
streaming services invest here, where they are making their
profits.  Van talks about why Aussie stories on Aussie
screens is so important.


Plus The Voice is a step closer, despite the misinformation
campaigns online.


And good news from one of our staunch supporters about the CSIRO
and Hydrogen!


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