Episode 124: Super tax reforms, Greedflation, the end of killer kitchen tops and good news about cute animals

Van Badham and Ben Davison are LIVE in the Yurt at Adelaide
Fringe talking about how the week's news shows us that, for some
bosses, if they can get away with it they will and that we need
strong, democratic movements to curb the excesses that create
greed-price spirals, shorten people's lives for the sake of a
kitchen bench and funnel our commonwealth to the 0.5% richest
people in the country at the expense of working people's
retirements.


You can join you union at australianunions.org.au/wow to make
sure your super is paid, your workplace is safe and your rights
are always getting stronger.


Van and Ben discuss the reforms to superannuation tax concessions
which will raise $2BILLION from the 80,000 accounts with more
than $3million, the Murdoch media's meltdown over this
"communism" and why Ben and Van think this modest reform gets
super closer to the original purpose that unions set it up to
achieve; dignity in retirement for working people.


Van and Ben congratulate the quick reaction to the union campaign
to stop sillicosis and point out that 1 in 4 stonemasons may have
already been exposed to "popcorn lung" by bosses who have gone so
far as to to refer to the victims of silica dust as "dogs".


The scourge of "greedflation" continues to ravage Australia, and
much of the world, as prices surge on the back of profiteering
and outdated economic ideologies that keep whacking working
people.  


There's also good news about endangered animals!


And Van again does the Cadre and Extend the Reach shout outs LIVE
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