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Issue No. 216 | 16 April 2004 |
Joining the Dots
Interview: Terror Australis Unions: Graeme Beard's Second Dig Industrial: The Hell of Troy Organising: Miners Strike Gold Economics: The Accepted Wisdom History: Vicious Old Lady International: Out of Sight, Out of Mind Review: War Unfogged Poetry: TAFE
Mum Burned By "Barbecue Stopper" Death Highlights Risky Business Roving Commission for Safety Reps
Postcard The Soapbox The Locker Room Politics
Tom�s A Furphy Rolling in Clover More War And Peace Invisible Workers
Labor Council of NSW |
News Workers Order Ziggy on Toast
The CEPU has challenged Telstra directors to use chairman Mansfield's resignation to move from its policy of offshore speculation to building domestic service and jobs, and sees the CEO's scalp as a necessary pre-condition to an improved relationship. It points out that during the Mansfield-Switkowski watch, Telstra dumped more than 20,000 workers, outsourced jobs offshore, raised prices and failed to maintain infrastructure. CEPU Victorian secretary, Len Cooper, said his union spoke as the representative of 30,000 workers who are also shareholders. His organisation has put a six-point challenge to Telstra directors ... - to accept Switkowski's resignation, immediately - cease political demands for the company's full privatisation - cease mass redundancies and rebuild staff levels to enable the provision of quality services - to carry out a review of management attitudes to staff with a view to rebuilding morale and teamwork - carry out an objective review of contracting and outsourcing policies with a view to bringing work back in-house, as agreed in the company's recent EBA with the CEPU Meanwhile, Prime Minister John Howard has shocked industry observers with a suggestion that Communications Minister, Richard Alston, takeover from Mansfield as chairman. Telstra sources insist that as Communication Minister, Senator Alston rejected a short-list of possible CEO's forwarded by previous office holder, Frank Blount, leading to Switkowski filling the position in the first place. Labor Communications spokesman Lindsay Tanner said Alston had built an international reputation as the world's worst Communcations Minister. "Having stacked the ABC and SBS boards, John Howard is now going for the mother of all political stacks," Tanner said.
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