
Issue No 46		17 March 2000

News

Telstra Troubleshooter Bombs Stellar

The focus on Stellar follows the decision this week by a former Telstra human resources manager, Andrew Hillard, to blow the whistle on the telecommunication giant's anti-union agenda.


	Trashing Telstra

In the past week Hillard has accused Telstra of 'corporate incest' in using offshoot Stellar to drive down wages and conditions.

Most of the attention has focused on Telstra's plans to hive off the bulk of its Directory Assistance work to Stellar. The national carrier's 1223 Directory Assistance work will be centralised to a mega-call centre due to open in Perth next month, employing more than 350 permanent staff.

Hillard says that the opening of the Perth site will be a watershed of Telstra work being diverted to a company that uses cheaper labour and below award conditions.

"Under the new regime of massive job-shedding, Telstra obviously intends to sack rural employees and break the back of the Telstra unions by creating a low wage alternative call centre workforce," he says.

"All fair-minded Australians, particularly Telstra shareholders, will be appalled to learn that Telstra has designed a secret boardroom agenda to avoid its obligation to provide award pay and conditions, by outsourcing its call centre work to Stellar, which it controls."

Hillard has held talks this week with key Telstra unions in a bid to raise national awareness of the issue.

See next week's Workers Online for an interview with the Telstra Troubleshooter, Andrew Hillard

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  Issue 46 contents

Interview: Bob Carrďż˝s Awful Truth
The NSW Premier on Laborism, factions and why the Cabinet Office isn't running the state.

Unions: The Stellar Experiment
The agenda for the future job-shedding program by Telstra has been revealed via it's bastard child, Stellar.

Technology: Roboboss is Watching You
Behind the hype of the information age is a sinister side where workplace surveillance robs employees of all privacy and dignity. Sometimes, though, it provides welcome security.

International: Kiwi Reforms To Spark Union Revival
The head of the New Zealand trade union movement is optimistic that workers will come back to unions once a fair industrial relations framework is put in place.

Politics: Ethical Politics and the Clinton Affair
The vote by the US House of Representatives in December, 1998 on whether to impeach President Bill Clinton could be regarded as a debate about the acceptability of dirty-handed politics.

History: Living Library
Sydneyďż˝s Mitchell Library archives house some of the most extensive records of our political heritage.

Satire: Reconciliation, Aussie Style
The majority of Austrlaians want Aboriginals to adopt ďż˝ourďż˝ values: ďż˝Why canďż˝t they be ignorant racists too?ďż˝

Review: Casino Oz
Laurie Aarons' new book puts the spotlight on the growing gap being the rich and the poor.

» Carr Vows to Move on Casuals

» NSW Government in Hot Seat Over Individual Contracts

» Telstra Troubleshooter Bombs Stellar

» Illegal immigrants Working Next Door to PM

» Education Department Hit By Massive Fine

» Victims Comp Changes Exclude Traumatised Worker

» SOCOG Agrees: Ceremonies Not an Eisteddfod

» Senate Guts 'Ships from Hell' Bill

» Campaigners Seek Dissident Web Domains

» The Soapbox

» The Locker Room

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» The Real Big Fella

» That's It For Labor

» Join Australia's Gas Out

» Tribute to Jennie

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