Telecommunications

Andy Penn-ypincher and his mob of wage thieving executives should look to the 8000 people he is forcing out of a job if he’s struggling to find people to work at Telstra. At a speech at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia’s launch on Wednesday, the Telstra CEO claimed that he is being forced to look overseas for talent.

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The majority of members across the country should by now have received their ballot material to vote yes in the Telstra protected action ballot. If you have not yet received your ballot material, you should contact the Australian Electoral Commission urgently to request replacement material. To do so, contact either Michelle Knight or Ashleigh Ratcliffe on (03) 9285 7171. Remember,

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Your opportunity to tell Telstra; “you deserve better” is almost here, with ballot papers starting to arrive at members’ homes. Remember, the process is being conducted by the AEC and ballot papers are being posted centrally from Melbourne. Depending on where you live, it could take a few days to arrive. Once you receive your ballot papers, completing and returning your vote

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Member teleconferences scheduled for this week Your opportunity to tell Telstra you deserve better is almost here, with ballot papers to vote yes to protected industrial action arriving at your mailing address in the coming days. With the cost of living rising to levels of up to 2.1% across 2018, Telstra’s 1.5% pay offer puts you behind. Telstra’s unfair wage offer

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CEPU members will be shortly given the opportunity to vote to engage in protected industrial action at Telstra. Only a short time ago, employees forced Telstra back to the bargaining table after resoundingly rejecting their penny-pinching offer of a pay cut in real terms. And we have continued to bargain with Telstra in good faith – advancing your claims for

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Bargaining has continued with Telstra refusing to improve their offer of a measly 1.5% wage rise for Workstream and an equivalent pay pool for Job Family – a pay cut in real terms for both workgroups. In order to break the merry-go-round impasse bargaining had become, the combined Unions Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) put our own offer to Telstra in

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For some time your Union has been highlighting the plight of telecommunication industry workers who find themselves stuck in a cycle of systemic insecure work. Some of the major contractors to Telstra and NBN have established, what we refer to as, pyramid subcontracting schemes – driven by the extreme ends of corporate greed. Under these pyramid subcontracting schemes, the worker

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Last week saw one of the biggest network outages to ever hit Telstra – leaving businesses stranded without EFTPOS, the public without access to ATMs, and almost 800 criminals walking free with electronic monitoring bracelets failing for more than 24 hours. Most concerningly, this outage comes on the back of Telstra’s mass sacking of hundreds of skilled workers across the

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A large-scale Telstra outage that has shut down ATMs around the country, has come just days after Telstra announced the axing of 360 technical field employees – the very people with the skills to fix major issues like this. CEPU NSW Branch Secretary and National President, Shane Murphy, said that Telstra announced it would be axing the 360 jobs on

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