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Issue No. 124 | 15 February 2002 |
Chickens Come Home
Unions: Winning the Heartland Interview: Swan's Song Corporate: Lessons from Enron Politics: What We Did Last Summer History: Solidarity in Song International: A Tale of Two Cities Poetry: Nobody Told Me Review: Labor and the Rings Satire: Rafter Named Bermudan Of The Year For Tax Purposes
Unions' Commit to Battle for Hearts Carr on Notice - Expectations Up Mad Monk Sides With Angels � Briefly Maritime Union Acts on Spy Scandal May Day Play-Off for Workers' Anthem Burmese Links Shroud Winter Olympics New Phone Venture One.Tel In Drag Two Million Face Rights Downgrade Enron Collapse Hits Share-Owner Agenda Corrrigan Snaps Up Rail Bargain Kinko Clowns With Workers' Rights Telstra's Tragic Delays Of Its Own Making Burrow Puts Case to World Economic Forum Shangri La Protests Hit Melbourne
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
'International Labour's Year in Review' - A Re-View Belly's Broad-Side Collins Gets Cryptic
Labor Council of NSW |
News New Phone Venture One.Tel In Drag
The CPSU was meeting TeleOne principals, including one-time One.Tel chiefs Mark Silbermann and Kevin Beck, today. Stephen Jones, Communications Section assistant secretary, told Workers Online they would be looking for key assurances before recommending that former employees walk through the doors. The union wants specific information on ... � the length of TeleOne's contracts with carriers � its corporate structure - what are its assets, who holds those assets and who will be the employing entity? � commitments on negotiating an award and certified agreement "We have maintained contact with a number of former One.Tel people and won't be advising them to take the risk unless we get those assurances," Jones said. The former directors announced plans to launch their new phone company, focusing on the residential market, in April. More than 1600 workers were left jobless when One.Tel collapsed last year with $600 million in debts. Quick action from the CPSU recovered redundancy payments and other entitlement but significant bonuses still went unpaid. One.Tel employed staff on individual contracts in direct opposition to the collective documents being pursued by the CPSU. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is reportedly trying to have Silbermann and One.Tel boss Jodee Rich, unconnected with the new venture, barred from being managers or directors of any Australian company.
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