Latest Workersrights Podcast Episodes
Episode 6 Building and Sustaining Power
Masterclass for Activists - December 30, 2021 03:21 - 47 minutesWarning: This episode includes a story about workplace deaths and suicide. History has been changed by building power, and there’s power in drawing upon the lessons of history. This podcast discusses power, what it is, why it’s important to analyse and understand it, and how to build it. In ...
Episode 3 Strategy for Success
Masterclass for Activists - November 14, 2021 03:01 - 53 minutesEpisode 3 Strategy for Success discusses how to design and execute a winning strategy. In this episode, our host Emeritus Professor Ed Davis is joined by Sally McManus (Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions), Bill Kelty AC (former Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions) and Tom ...
Surviving labour abuse: a victim's story
Know Your Rights - September 28, 2021 12:39 - 15 minutesMuch of what we've discussed in previous episodes isn't easy to understand unless there's a real life case study to relate to. For this episode we hear from Raitis who moved to the UK from his native Latvia in 2011. He worked in a number of jobs including fruit picking and construction. Here w...
Reporting concerns and what happens to my information?
Know Your Rights - September 28, 2021 12:37 - 25 minutesUnderstanding how to spot the signs of labour exploitation is crucial. But equally important is knowing how to report your concerns and the information that the GLAA and partners are looking for when you make that call. In the first part of this episode Justine Currell from the Modern Slavery ...
Modern slavery and how to spot the signs of exploitation
Know Your Rights - September 28, 2021 12:37 - 11 minutesIn this episode we focus on modern slavery and how to spot the signs if you or someone you know has been exploited. We are joined by GLAA Senior Investigating Officer Jen Baines. Jen began the episode by explaining the difference between modern slavery and labour exploitation. More informati...
A crash course in employment rights
Know Your Rights - September 28, 2021 12:36 - 23 minutesIn this third episode of our series we look more closely at employment rights and some of the main points to be aware of when you start work. Marina Glasgow from ACAS explains the most important employment rights to be aware of when you move into the world of work and how ACAS can help if you ...
How to apply for jobs safely
Know Your Rights - September 28, 2021 12:32 - 13 minutesJob scams are sadly extremely prevalent in the current job market. During the COVID-19 pandemic, almost three in four jobseekers (74%) applied for jobs that were not genuine. In the second episode of this podcast series we learn more about how to apply for jobs safely. We are joined by Keith...
Workers' rights qualification: an introduction
Know Your Rights - September 28, 2021 12:31 - 20 minutesGLAA CEO Elysia McCaffrey introduces the second series of Know Your Rights, with the focus for these six episodes all on the Level 1 Award in Workers' Rights and Labour Exploitation we have developed with the Skills and Education Group. In this first episode GLAA Head of Communications Paul Co...
Episode 5 The winning strategy that built Australia’s safety net
Masterclass for Activists - July 21, 2021 08:06 - 1 hourIn the face of unprecedented global economic and political crisis in the 1980s, Australia was the only country on earth that radically built its social safety net. At a time when the world was gripped by the hitherto unknown phenomenon of rampant and simultaneously high unemployment, high infla...
Exploatarea prin muncă: povestea unei victim
Know Your Rights - May 05, 2021 08:16 - 13 minutesExploatarea prin muncă este o problemă globală și o crimă internatională, afectând milioane de oameni din întreaga lume, incluzând deasemenea multe victime și în Regatul Unit. În fiecare an, Gangmasters And Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) identifică mii de potențiale victime ale exploatării și luc...
Labour exploitation: a victim's story
Know Your Rights - May 05, 2021 08:12 - 16 minutesLabour exploitation is a global problem and international crime, affecting millions of people worldwide, including many victims within the UK. Each year, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) identifies thousands of potential victims of exploitation and works in partnership with othe...
Is your car wash trading standards compliant?
Know Your Rights - April 27, 2021 10:43 - 10 minutesCustomers at hand car washes and any other business should be provided with all the basic information that they need to be able to make an informed decision about the goods or services that they purchase. In this episode, Dean Cooke from Slough Trading Standards talks to Andreea Salvage about ...
Why health and safety matters
Know Your Rights - April 27, 2021 10:42 - 10 minutesHealth and safety is all about stopping workers from getting hurt or ill through work. Everyone has a right to work in places where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Health and safety is particularly important at hand car washes, with the use of chemicals and also the int...
Pay and the National Minimum Wage
Know Your Rights - April 27, 2021 10:34 - 15 minutesThe National Minimum Wage was introduced on April 1 1999 and in the following 22 years, it has transformed the UK’s labour market. In the first 20 years of its existence, HM Revenue and Customs’ dedicated National Minimum Wage team helped over 835,000 workers recover almost £119 million in unp...
Spotting the signs of exploitation at hand car washes
Know Your Rights - April 27, 2021 10:33 - 17 minutesWorkers being exploited for their labour is something that sadly continues to exist in 21st century Britain. Men, women and children of all ages and backgrounds can become victims of human trafficking, forced labour, domestic servitude or debt bondage. Victims are controlled by force, threats, c...
What is the Responsible Car Wash Scheme?
Know Your Rights - April 22, 2021 10:56 - 12 minutesThe number of hand car washes in the UK has increased dramatically over the last 15 years. As many as 7,000 hand car washes have popped up across the country and while many follow all the rules and regulations, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) and other law enforcement agencies ...
Episode 4 Mindful Militancy
Masterclass for Activists - November 25, 2020 05:11 - 36 minutesMindful Militants with Lisa Fitzpatrick, Doug Cameron and Tom McDonald discusses the role of militant tactics in pioneering social change. Throughout history militant peoples’ action has been pivotal to creating a fairer society. But militancy that is not underpinned by principles and grounded...
Bonus episode - Women Leading the ACTU
Masterclass for Activists - September 24, 2020 05:00 - 16 minutesBefore 1983 no woman had ever been elected to the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). In 1995, Jennie George became the first woman ACTU President and was followed by Sharan Burrow, Ged Kearney and Michelle O’Neil. In Episode 3 Strategy for Success, Sally McManus and Bi...
Episode 2 Neoliberalism and a New Deal
Masterclass for Activists - July 06, 2020 23:45 - 34 minutesTo realise the goal of a fairer society by developing a counter-strategy to neoliberalism, we first need to analyse neoliberalism and be able to explain it to working people. Episode 2 Neoliberalism and a New Deal unpacks the strategy of neoliberalism to wind back workers’ rights and living st...
Episode 1 Hearts and Minds
Masterclass for Activists - July 06, 2020 23:45 - 45 minutesEpisode 1 Hearts and Minds discusses values, their place and role in driving change, how to counter right-wing populists and shock jocks, and how to win the support of working people for the cause of building a fairer Australia. Values are not only the bedrock of progressive movements but are ...
Turkey's child rape bill, Libyan refugees and cutting the Gaza fence
Podaganda - January 17, 2020 18:12 - 39 minutesPODAGANDA is back after a much-needed break from 2019 and ready to take on the new decade. In this episode, journalists Ben Cowles, Steve Sweeney and Bethany Rielly discuss: The Turkish government’s proposed changes to child sex laws (4:09) The 1,000 refugees pushed back to war-torn Libya in ...
Standing up to Nato and the pro-Israeli settlement charity
Podaganda - December 06, 2019 16:57 - 40 minutesIN this episode, Ben Cowles is joined by fellow journalists Ceren Sagir and Bethany Rielly to discuss: The general election so far: The polls, the Lib Dems’ lies, Elizabeth Winsdor’s (aka the queen) speech fiasco, Tory Islamophobia (1:50) This week’s anti-Nato protests (10:03) And the ...
Saving lives is not a crime: Interview with SOS Mediterranee's David Starke
Podaganda - November 25, 2019 18:13 - 47 minutesIN this episode of Podaganda, David Starke, the general director of SOS Mediterranee speaks about the charity’s rescue missions onboard the Ocean Viking, Europe’s handling of the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ and the criminalisation of humanitarian rescue Show notes Follow Podaganda, Ben Co...
A once-in-a-generation opportunity: Interview with Labour's Danielle Rowley
Podaganda - November 18, 2019 14:14 - 31 minutesIN this episode of Podaganda, Labour’s shadow minister for climate justice and green jobs Danielle Rowley tells us about how she became Labour’s youngest MP, her campaign to get re-elected as Midlothian's MP, the Lib Dem-Plaid Cymru-Green Party's alliance, the environment, period poverty and mor...
General Election; Footballers and billionaires; global fight against neoliberalism, and The Joker
Podaganda - November 08, 2019 15:16 - 56 minutesIN episode nine of Podaganda journalists Ben Cowles and Steve Sweeney are joined by their Morning Star colleague Kadeem Simmonds to discuss: General Election 2019 (1.40) Footballers defending billionaires against Labour (16:36) Anti-neoliberal protests around the world (24:48) And the Jok...
Chile vs Neoliberalism: Interview with Francisco Dominguez
Podaganda - November 01, 2019 16:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of Podaganda journalists Ben Cowles and Steve Sweeney interview Chilean academic and activist Francisco Dominguez about the recent anti-neoliberal protests in Chile and the history which led to them. As always brace yourself for profoundly left-wing views and plenty of bad...
The British state, the media and Middle Eastern regimes: Interview with Matt Kennard
Podaganda - October 18, 2019 21:29 - 1 hourIn this special episode of Podaganda journalists Ben Cowles and Steve Sweeney interview investigative journalist and author Matt Kennard about: The British intelligence services’ co-opting of the Guardian newspaper (11:37) the establishment’s propping up of the brutal Saudi royal fami...
Criminalising solidarity: Sean Binder, Anouk Van Gestal, Haidi Sadik, Ben Smoke and Jeremy Corbyn
Podaganda - October 10, 2019 15:11 - 1 hourBen Cowles and Steve Sweeney were unable to record a show this week, due mainly to life and work getting in the way. And so Podaganda would like to present The World Transformed’s Crimes for Humanity panel at the Labour Party Conference from a couple of weeks ago. In this brilliant confe...
The media war on Labour: The Morning Star fringe event
Podaganda - September 28, 2019 16:07 - 1 hourIN this special episode of Podaganda journalists Ben Cowles and Steve Sweeney present the Morning Star’s fringe meeting, the Media War on Labour, at Labour Party Conference in Brighton last week. Speakers include: Carolyn Jones, vice-chair of the Morning Star’s management committee (2:23) M...
Unethical journalism; Lib Dem conference, and Turkish state misogyny
Podaganda - September 20, 2019 20:08 - 1 hourIn episode eight, journalists Steve Sweeney and Ben Cowles are joined by with Morning Star colleague Kadeem Simmonds and the Private Eye/Morning Star’s Solomon Hughes to discuss: A bad week for journalism (Laura Kuenssberg, the S*n’s Ben Stokes story and the blackmail of Gareth Thomas) (0...
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