This week in our summer series, we head back to August 2022 to examine the growing demands for food assistance from workers and their families.

The promise of the Australian Dream is that you should be able to work one decent, secure job and earn enough pay to put a roof over your head, support your family and thrive.

That all seems like a pipe dream in the current climate, where insecure work, no entitlements, climbing inflation, and a housing squeeze means that hard-working Australians are driven to the margins.

Many of them are turning to organisations like Foodbank to help them make ends meet.

Foodbank is Australia’s largest food relief organisation, operating on a scale that makes it crucial to the work of the front-line charities who are feeding vulnerable Australians.

Foodbank provides more than 70% of the food rescued for food relief organisations nationwide.

Matt Tilley is acting of CEO at Foodbank in Victoria.

He joins us on the pod.



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Francis Leach is Editor at Large for the Australian Council of Trade Unions

Twitter - @SaintFrankly

This week in our summer series, we head back to August 2022 to examine the growing demands for food assistance from workers and their families.
The promise of the Australian Dream is that you should be able to work one decent, secure job and earn enough pay to put a roof over your head, support your family and thrive.
That all seems like a pipe dream in the current climate, where insecure work, no entitlements, climbing inflation, and a housing squeeze means that hard-working Australians are driven to the margins.
Many of them are turning to organisations like Foodbank to help them make ends meet.
Foodbank is Australia’s largest food relief organisation, operating on a scale that makes it crucial to the work of the front-line charities who are feeding vulnerable Australians.
Foodbank provides more than 70% of the food rescued for food relief organisations nationwide.
Matt Tilley is acting of CEO at <a href="https://www.foodbank.org.au/?state=vic" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.foodbank.org.au/?state%3Dvic&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1671758693665000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1i64pYBYohmOl5SSDTSwXf">Foodbank in Victoria</a>.
He joins us on the pod.
 
You can now email us with your comments, story ideas, tip-offs, flip offs, and questions - <a href="mailto:otjpodcast@protonmail.com">otjpodcast@protonmail.com</a>
 On the Job is made by <a href="https://www.australianunions.org.au/">Australian Unions</a>.
<a href="https://www.onthejobpodcast.com.au/">More about On The Job podcast</a>
 Need help with working conditions?
Call <a href="https://actuonline.nationbuilder.com/">Australian Union Support Centre</a> - <a href="tel:1300486466">1300 486 466</a>
 
About the host
Francis Leach is Editor at Large for the Australian Council of Trade Unions
Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/SaintFrankly">@SaintFrankly</a>

The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.

It’s about who we work with, and who we work for.

It’s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job.

It’s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.

Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we’ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives.

And that can all be in the same week!

Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone
who listens.

Authorised by Sally McManus, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Melbourne.

The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.
It&rsquo;s about who we work with, and who we work for.
It&rsquo;s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job.
It&rsquo;s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.
Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we&rsquo;ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives.
And that can all be in the same week!
Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone who listens. Authorised by Sally McManus, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Melbourne.

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The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.

It’s about who we work with, and who we work for.

It’s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job.

It’s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.

Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we’ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives.

And that can all be in the same week!

Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone
who listens.

The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.
It&rsquo;s about who we work with, and who we work for.
It&rsquo;s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job.
It&rsquo;s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.
Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we&rsquo;ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives.
And that can all be in the same week!
Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone who listens.

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