Tag: Unions
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S4E17 – The SEQEB dispute 40 years on
Today we go back 40 years – to when Brisbane was in the grips of the SEQEB dispute after Joh Bjelke-Peterson’s government sacked over 1000 electrical workers. I speak to lifelong unionist Bob Carnegie about the dispute and it’s effect, and also to Peter Ong from the Electrical Trades Union about the lessons learned for…
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S4E9 – Kurilpa Anarchist Bookfair
Today’s show is all about the Kurilpa Anarchist Bookfair (which by the time you hear this podcast has unfortunately already happened). We speak to one of the organisers Tom Morrison; to Oliver Graham from the Anarchist Communist Federation about unionism and anarchism; and to Elina Sleiman about a women’s anarchist history of Brisbane. Originally broadcast…
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S1E11 – May Day and Unions
This week’s show is a May Day workers special. I ask Queensland Council of Unions general secretary Michael Clifford some existential questions about the role of unions in 2022, plus offer some musings of my own on what makes a working class analysis actually useful. Originally broadcast 29/04/22
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