Today two struggles from two different ends of the spectrum with the same issues at the core – pay and conditions.

First we hear from Tony Mavromatis, Victorian State Secretary of the AMWU, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union about the strike action by workers at the Visy Plant in the rural centre Shepparton in Victoria.

Support the strike fund:

BANK: NAB
BSB: 082-057
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 18-898-9948
ACCOUNT NAME: AMWU Disaster Appeal Account
REFERENCE: Visy Shepp

We follow up with a report on the NTEU, National Tertiary Education Union strike action at Sydney University on March 31 and to be repeated on April 5^th in the longest eba negotiation in the University’s history.