Issue No 102 | 13 July 2001 | |
NewsWidespread Mail Disruptions on Cards
New South Wales faces the prospect of widespread mail delivery disruptions in the coming weeks over the contracting out of work. The Communications Electrical Plumbing Union has placed Australia Post on for removing three postmen from the Stockton Delivery Centre by contracting out their jobs. This action taken by Australia Post Management follows two years of disputes between Australia Post and Postal Workers by replacing permanent full-time jobs with part-time, fixed-term and casual employment. The CEPU is about to commence negotiations with Australia Post for a new wage deal that will cover some 13,000 Postal Workers throughout New South Wales. CEPU state secretary Jim Metcher says members have listed Job Security as their top priority in a recent survey conducted by the Union with its Postal membership. "Over the past two years, 2,000 permanent full-time Postal Workers' jobs have disappeared in New South Wales alone," Methcer says. "Australia Post Management are reported describing Postal Workers as 'BLUDGERS' and 'WILD ANIMALS THAT HAD TO BE KEPT AT BAY' despite productivity gains twice the national average." Metcher says this is not the general public view of their local Postie
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Interview: Jolly Green Giant Senator Bob Brown on the upcoming federal poll, balances of power and what the Greens can teach the trade union movement. Workplace: Call Centre Takeover Theresa Davison brings us this real-life story from the coal face of the call centre industry. E-Change: 1.2 Community � The Ultimate Network Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel look at the potential for network technologies to reconnect communities. International: Child's Play Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has recently entered a new alliance with the Child Labour Schools Company to support a project for child labourers in India. History: Flowers to the Rebels Faded With the departure of our own Wobbly, a look at the development of the Wobblies in Australia and their view of Labor politicians and the work ethic seems timely. East Timor: A Dirty Little War In this extract from his new book, John Martinkus recounts the scenes in Dili immediately following the independence ballot. Satire: Telstra Share Failure Ends City-Bush Divide: Everybody Screwed Equally Communications Minister Richard Alston today claimed that the government had fulfilled its promise to ensure that the bush was not disproportionately disadvantaged by Telstra's privatisation. Review: Cheesy Management Currently climbing Australian best-seller lists is the 'life-changing' motivational book 'Who Moved My Cheese?' Rowan Cahill has a nibble but doesn't like the taste.
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