Live News Feed: CEPU Victorian branch
'ALP to end bosses rule.'
A union is a number of persons joined or associated together for some common purpose: student union; trade union etc; Business Council of Australia CEO's joined together in pursuit of corporate profits. Australian Industry Group, employers joined together in pursuit of 'competitive workplaces', euphemism for more money for shareholders at the expense of workers. The Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, represents the interests of big business at the national level; making it the ACTU of the business world.
26 April 2007 [Read More]
Consumer privacy rights now.
Philip Ruddocks late entry into the debate on data privacy in offshore call centres, especially in India, is too little too late says Len Cooper, Secretary of the Communication Workers Union. The Howard government has actively encouraged Australian business to offshore operations in pursuit of lower wages and higher profits. It was somewhat inevitable that a 'black market' in personal information would be the end result. Identity theft is a booming international business said Cooper.
23 January 2007 [Read More]
Telstra spy plan runs of the road
Telstra have locked themselves in a do or die battle with their field workforce over the deployment of GPS (Global Positioning Systems) in Telstra vehicles. Earlier this year Telstra entered into a contract with another US based company with possible links to the new US management, called Atroad. The contract is worth milions of dollars.
04 September 2006 [Read More]
Telstra's $1.3M misunderstanding
Telstra is trying on a novel approach to dealing with its self-created problem of $1.3 million dollars worth of returned mobile phones. They are instructing call centre sales workers to ‘convince’ the customer to keep them. The phones are sold to customers by the sales staff, but the sales campaigns have resulted in a high level of returned, unwanted phones. Telstra claims that this is all due to misunderstandings between the Telstra and the customer. Telstra claims that the phones are being returned because the customers don’t like the colour, or the phone is too complicated. The CEPU alleges that Telstra have again created a culture of ‘slamming’ whereby phones are sent out to customers who have clearly said ‘no they do not want the phone' and haven't asked for one.
24 July 2006 [Read More]
Industrial Armageddon Begins
In Melbourne today, Australian workers worst nightmare in regards to the Howard Governments Industrial Relations changes began.
The AIRC in Melbourne was forced to strike out five award variation applications as they could not be heard in time to meet this Sundays midnight deadline, after which the AIRC is gutted of it’s powers to hear matters due to Howard’s new legislation.
23 March 2006 [Read More]
Maori workers challenge Canberra
Several hundred Maori workers who came to Australia seeking decent wages and conditions at work throughout the late 1980’s and 1990’s took a very powerful message to Canberra on Wednesday 2nd November. The workers performed a Haka on the lawns at the front of Parliament House as the new IR Legislation was introduced. The workers, largely CFMEU members from the mining and construction industries, travelled to Canberra from all over Australia to let the Howard government know what they think of the proposed IR legislation.
07 November 2005 [Read More]
'Non-unionists Psalm'
The dues-paying member is my shepherd; I shall not pay.
He provideth me with sick days and holidays
26 July 2005 [Read More]
'Witch hunt inside Telstra.'
Telstra management are currently conducting a 'witch hunt' amongst staff to try to discover who leaked a report which embarrassed the senior management & the Howard Government.
The report, made public some weeks ago by the Shadow Minister for Communications Lindsay Tanner, exposed the problem and service shortfalls in the Telstra Mobile Telephone Network throughout Australia. The report of April 2004 outlined major problems in the maintenance and operation of Telstra's mobile base stations and provided evidence of inadequate mobile technician staff training and a lack of maintenance.
26 September 2004 [Read More]
'Telstra-Behind the profit.'
Telstra's announcement today of it's 4.1billion profit comes with a high toll for it's customers and it's employees says CEPU Victorian Secretary Len Cooper. The company has presided over the declining morale of it's workforce, destructive mass redundancies and the continued decline of the telecommunications network, evidenced today by the major outage of it's Broadband ADSL network and the recent leaked report showing a major decline in the mobile network service standards.
12 August 2004 [Read More]
'Howard's Bush Boy gets Telstra.'
So Telstra has a new Chairman, a Mr Donald
McGauchie. What does it mean for the future of our
members in Telstra and the general public who have
the controlling interest in the company?
29 July 2004 [Read More]
All Out at Australia Post
It was standing room only at the first Mass Meeting of Australia Post workers for over 20 years. The Victorian Trades Hall Council ballroom was full of angry postal workers who delivered Australia Post a strident message 'we're not going to take it anymore.'
13 May 2004 [Read More]
'Mansfied departure from Telstra.'
'Mansfield departure from Telstra is long overdue.'
The resignation of Telstra Chairman Bob Mansfield is long overdue. CEO Ziggy Switkowski should follow him as soon as possible.
15 April 2004 [Read More]
TELSTRA/FOXTEL SUBBIES STRIKE
The so called 'digital revolution' will be delayed from 7am on Monday morning (15th March) as the sub-contractors members of the CEPU begin a strike.
14 March 2004 [Read More]
Telstra-More jobs to go to India
TELSTRA-Good corporate citizens-I'd like to see that as the company again puts profits before people and sends more jobs offshore. Telstra and IBM have finally come clean and admitted to plans to outsource at least 450 high tech IT jobs to India.
14 January 2004 [Read More]
'Telstra/Foxtel see the light.'
The Sub Contractors who perform Cable TV and Broadband work for Telstra/Foxtel have recently broken through with a successful campaign to improve their lot.
The Sub Contractors, over 90% of whom are members of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU), had been out on strike for about 10 days, to fight for a better deal.
10 December 2003 [Read More]
'Communications contractors rebel'.
COMMUNICATIONS CONTRACTORS SAY 'PAY UP TELSTRA, WE'RE NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE'.
Telecommunications contractors installing broadband products for Telstra and cable television for Foxtel have stood up to the telecommunications giant and it's partner Foxtel and said they will no longer take the poor conditions and rates of pay they have been subject to for the last few years.
27 November 2003 [Read More]
Telstra-More jobs to go.
It is clear, apart from the current redundancies taking place over the next few weeks, that Telstra's corporate managers have plans for further rounds of redundancies beyond these.
This formula is a simple one. You increase productivity-you help to work yourself or your mates out of a job!
29 June 2003 [Read More]
'CEPU-Ziggy must go.'
The CEPU is set to launch a shareholder wide campaign calling for Ziggy Switkowski to go. Len Cooper Secretary of the Communications Union (CEPU) says that ‘ the CEPU has to regularly defend Telstra workers who are being sacked or threatened because they apparently do not meet Telstra’s arbitrary performance targets.
04 March 2003 [Read More]
Telstra-'Richard Li's Big Sucker.'
Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski’s announcement of the billion-dollar write-down of its investment in Pacific Century Cyberworks comes as no surprise to the Telstra union, the CEPU. Len Cooper, Victorian Secretary of the Communications Union and Telstra board candidate has been highlighting the folly of this venture for several years.
21 February 2003 [Read More]
Police Operations Centre Dispute Vic
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE COMMENCES-POLICE DESPATCH CENTRE MELBOURNE.
The members of the CEPU employed at the Victoria Police Despatch Centre (VPC) formerly known as Intergraph, and who work for emergency communications have voted to begin an industrial campaign over their enterprise bargaining claims
11 December 2002 [Read More]
'CEPU Takes on Telstra Board'
CEPU-Victorian State Secretary (Communications) is calling on all union members who hold shares in Telstra to vote for change in the upcoming elections for the Telstra board.
15 October 2002 [Read More]
Telstra Workers Lose Cup Day
The CEPU have notified the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) over a dispute about the operation of the public holidays clause in the Telstra award.
05 November 2001 [Read More]
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