Mary Kelly relates her motivations for moving into leadership positions in the Queensland Teachers Union. She focuses on women's issues in schools, covering female students and teachers, and the need for reform within the Union itself in order to address these issues.
Janice Mayes discusses the limited efforts to recruit Indigenous workers as well as the decision to affiliate the union with the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland.
Janice Mayes describes some of the campaigns that the union was involved with under her leadership, including those concerned with workplace bullying, privitisation and women's issues. She discusses the union's decision to affiliate with the ALP.
Janice Mayes recounts some of the industrial disputes she faced when working as President and Secretary of the FCU and Queensland Services Union (QSU).
Diane Zetlin describes her relationship with the Queensland branch of the Trades and Labor Council, and particularly with women's issues associated with the TLC.
Diane Zetlin discusses the role of women in unions, and particularly her own experience of discrimination and sexism as a woman in leadership in the NTEU.
