In this episode Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the recent cuts to penalty rates by the Fair Work Commission . We dismiss the idea that this attack is actual just a product of ‘the Right’; rather it is a continuation of the 100+ year tradition of arbitration supported by the ALP and the mainstream of the ACTU in the context of the real contradictions of capital accumulation. We discuss the movement against penalty rate cut as well as the Big Steps walk off of early childcare educators and the challenges the class faces to recomposing our power and secure emancipation.
Stuff we mention includes
Mazel Tov Cocktail podcast
Fair Work Commission 4 yearly review of modern awards – Penalty Rates
Elizabeth Humphrys, ‘Australia Under The Accord (1983-1996)’
A Fiery Defence Of Sally McManus: Thank Civil Disobedience For The Gains Of Today
The problem with ‘Join your union’
In Defense Of The “Apex Gang”
Insights into Low Wage Growth in Australia
Top industrial judge resigns in disgust over 'biased' system
Music by Barrett Strong
Living The Dream with the Anti-Nuclear Movement in Japan
Living The Dream reads On Fairness by Sally McManus
Living The Dream whilst abolishing prisons
Living The Dream in 2019!
Living The Dream with the Anti-Poverty Network Queensland
Living The Dream with a UBI whilst fighting against racism and for public housing
Living the Dream after the Plebiscite and amongst the Alt-Right
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme Ep 2
Living The Dream with the Communist Party of Australia and Indigenous Struggles in the 1920s and 30s
Living The Dream with The Maritime Defence Committee during the 1998 Wharf Dispute
Living the Dream whilst the Global Order fractures
Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 2
Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 1
Living The Dream in Ipswich
Living The Dream with Marx's Theories of Crisis
Living The Dream at Labour Day 2018
Living The Dream during Trump's Trade War
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Living The Dream in the feminist moment
Living The Dream antipolitically
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