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10 September 1999 |
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NewsTelstra Shareholders Asked to Block Union-Busters
Workers are appealing directly to Telstra shareholders to scotch the company's anti-union agenda, after management moved to end payroll deductions for union membership dues.
The decision, a classic union-busting tactic, is the latest in a series of actions to undermine conditions and discourage union membership within the company. The communication workers union has called on the thousands of individuals who took out shares in the initial float or are planning to invest in the current second tranche to use their shareholder rights to bring the company to account. "John Howard tells us that he's turned Australia into a nation of shareholders," CEPU organiser Tanya Barber says. "Here's a chance for some of those shareholders to exert their rights, rather than just sitting around and waiting for next year's dividends." Barber says shareholders can influence Telstra policy by placing resolutions at the Annual General Meeting or calling for a Special General Meeting to discuss the issue. Backing the union, the Labor Council has passed a resolution calling "on Telstra shareholders, to demand that Telstra management, through its Board of Directors, cease its ongoing campaign of discriminatory attacks against employees who wish to uphold their legal right to freedom of association, Telstra shareholders should demand that Telstra treat all payroll deductions in a fair and reasonable manner."
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