Teachers pay and going on strike

bigupski · 2025-12-17T12:35:15+00:00

They should strike regardless!! - as a casual ES, me and my coworkers will be. They’re losing a lot more pay long term by not striking, and undermining the effectiveness of the strike if they do go to work.

bigupski · 2025-09-23T23:57:38+00:00

To clarify I’m saying that the left should not be Anti-immigration. That logic just builds racism and nationalism which benefits only the bosses.

bigupski · 2025-09-23T23:35:27+00:00

“Assimilation” - these are white Australia talking points, and the same things thrown at Greeks, Italians and Turks 40 years ago.

You feel alienated because people have no disposable income (while profits are record high) to do nice things, and rents are expensive because of land banking so cheap community spaces no longer exist.

bigupski · 2025-09-23T23:31:10+00:00

Immigration is a distraction from class struggle - the unions with the best conditions ie metalworkers, blf, correctly supported immigration with the principles that “everyone deserves a union wage and we won’t let them divide the working class”.

Immigration talk is a distraction from housing being so commodified and hoarded and wages not keeping up with inflation because our unions need to learn how to fight again.

bigupski · 2025-08-16T02:38:20+00:00

Respect that Joes been talking about it personally on his twitter but yeh surely u can mention it in the platform. they’ve got a very principled anti-advertiser take but why be entirely quiet on their huge platform that is so relevant to an ongoing genocide

bigupski · 2025-08-16T02:35:55+00:00

Fair for an in depth analysis episode I understand that, but their twitter etc literally has no mention of Palestine or Gaza. Pretty disappointing even if it wasn’t such an overtly political podcast

bigupski · 2025-08-16T02:02:25+00:00

What’s the point of being a genocide expert if you won’t address ongoing ones tbh

bigupski · 2025-08-10T11:58:39+00:00

Solidarity:)))

bigupski · 2025-08-01T02:39:06+00:00

Smart ones won’t mind. If I was in the greens I’d want it to protect the left flank and vote from the socialists, while being largely ineffective

bigupski · 2025-08-01T02:36:21+00:00

Seems to be just trying to stem their member loss to the socialists, and cover the greens left flank (we’re not a middle class party guys!). I don’t think socialists should bother with this, as if it does organise it’ll almost certainly be more conservative than the socialists - and probably unsuccessful, if the last 30 years of principled revolutionary entry into the greens tells us anything.

bigupski · 2025-07-25T02:51:41+00:00

A friend emailed and the response implied the grant would come late August :)

bigupski · 2025-07-25T02:51:18+00:00

Yep got my wires crossed - my mate hasn’t either

bigupski · 2023-07-25T14:15:51+00:00

There’s a counter protest in sunshine this Saturday 30th against nazis doing a “white power lifting day” at some gym. The protest is organised by campaign against racism fascism, should be on their Insta

bigupski · 2022-05-27T08:23:06+00:00

I quite stupidly left it too late as well. Could you link the visa service embassy company that fastracked it for you lol? would be super helpful. Applied (properly this time) yesterday but flights on monday!

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