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Telstra Protest

Telstra Management has notified several hundred employees they are being made redundant. This is not new in a company that has laid off over 50,000 workers since 1996. What is new is that they intend to get rid of award workers on good wages and conditions and replace them with workers on individual contracts on about $11,000 a year less, with no 36 hour week and 9 day fortnight, and other poor conditions.
The union is currently fighting those blatantly anti-worker moves through local action by members (as best they can) and through the courts. Telstra is encouraged to have a crack at this due to the Howard Government’s workplace laws. Specifically because it knows that the Industrial Relations Commission is even more toothless and because direct industrial action is harder and harder for workers.
The CEPU (Communications Workers) led a protest rally outside Telstra’s corporate headquarters on the corner of Exhibition and Lonsdale Sts (down from Parliament Station), 242 Exhibition St., Melbourne at 12 Noon on Thursday 13th July 2006.
Around 100 people attended the rally. Sharan Burrow ACTU President and a representative of Federal Labor spoke at the protest. Telstra has threatened the workers in target with dismissal (without redundancy pay) and other actions, if they dare exercise their freedom of speech to speak out against these injustices.
This is John Howard’s Australia. Don’t let him get away with it.
CEPU
COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION
Telecommunications And Services Branch
Email: cdtsvic@victs.cepu.asn.au

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