Telstra

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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Your Union today welcomed the voting down of the company’s remuneration report at the Telstra Annual General Meeting, saying that executives granting themselves massive bonuses at a time when more than 8000 jobs are being axed from the company would have been completely irresponsible. Shareholders today voted down Telstra’s remuneration report — the report which outlines the salary and bonuses

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Tomorrow, Telstra CEO Andy Penn and his executive team will stand in front of their Annual General Meeting (AGM) and attempt to argue why their pay is worth 200 times that of the average Telstra worker. The cost of living is soaring and while they’re taking home millions – they want their workforce to swallow a pay cut in real

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The Telstra AGM is a little over a week away and we want the Board to hear you loud and clear. The AGM is one of the few public opportunities where the Board and CEO MUST answer questions. We can think of a few good ones – and are sure you can too. As shareholders, members have a voice in the management

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Earlier today, CEPU members employed at Telstra received an email from Telstra CEO Andy Penn. Some of it may be difficult to comprehend, particularly after 81% of you less than two weeks ago told them their penny-pinching pay offer was unacceptable. So we’ve called in our old mate Andy Penn-ypincher to translate it for you. Please see below. In the

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Telstra’s full-year profit of $3.6 billion means you shouldn’t have to take a pay cut. CEO Andy Penn-ypincher is out there in the media singing his doom and gloom song. The reality is — we’ve been here before. Actually, it’s been worse and it wasn’t that long ago. And guess what? Today’s dividends are higher than they were the last

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News just in – a record 81% of voters have rejected Telstra’s insultingly low penny-pinching pay offer that would have left workers facing a pay cut in real terms. Workers have said, loud and clear, that they will not accept a pay cut being mandated by a group of executives who take home more than our members would earn in

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Telstra has drawn a line in the sand and killed off any potential further talks with Unions to reach agreement for a new EBA. They have advised they will be pushing ahead with an employee vote on their disgraceful pay offer over the first few weeks of August. FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS We have managed to massage Telstra’s controversial proposal

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Telstra’s already poor customer satisfaction levels will go from bad to horrendous if the telco pushes ahead with its plans to axe 8000 jobs, the union representing Telstra workers says. An Australian Communications Consumer Action Network report released today describes Telstra as a “low performing provider” when it comes to resolving customer issues. CEPU Communications Union National President, Shane Murphy, said

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Corporate greed is alive and very, very well at Telstra.  AN INSULTING PAY OFFER Telstra have formally announced its pay offer for this round of EBA talks — a measly 1.5% p.a. For some of Telstra’s lowest paid workers, that means less than $2.50 per day. And if you are a Job Family employee, it’s not even guaranteed as Telstra

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