
Issue No 65		04 August 2000

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Spanish Telecom Builds Employee Portal

The prospect of on-line access for unions to company employees was outlined to Union Network International by the head of Spanish Telecommunications giant. Telefonica.

Telefonica is committed to developing an Employee's Portal - an electronic channel for the company's relations with employees said Juan Villalonga.

This portal would handle, said Mr Villalonga, "all issues of concern to (employees) - information, job offers, holidays, social issues, mobility, payroll, advances, time off complaints and sundry notices.

"We forsee that the portal will eventually serve as a union bulletin board or information and communications medium between unions and Telefonica employees."

On-line rights for on-line workers is one of the key campaigning targets of Union Network International.

"We have decided to begin, preferably, with the Employee's Portal because if our human resources fail to acquire this new culture, we shall hardly be able to implement it in our external relations," said the President and Chief Executive of Telefonica.

"Your challenge is to know how to involve workers - and in fact involve therm - in the new Internet culture, to know how to enable all workers to access information and communications technologies, to define the role of trade unions in this process and to determine how it is going to affect their future."

His general message to delegates was that the Internet revolution is unstoppable and that it is going to mean new approaches to the Group's relations with others.

He urged UNI to become actively involved in the changeover to the new culture.

"We need the unions and they need the company, since in the face of something that is unstoppable, something that is going to change or already is changing the ways we inter-relate, if we are able to anticipate the direction to take and run a fast race, it will be to the benefit of all - the company, employees, customers, suppliers and society at large - but we have to do it together."

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Issue 65 contents

Interview: Hobart Perspective
Having held senior positions in both wings of the labour movement, Martin Ferguson went to Hobart with more perspective than most. He shares a bit of it with Workers Online.

Politics: Love-in In a Cold Climate
In our exclusive campaign diary we bring you the sights, sounds and smells of the ALP's Hobart conference.

Unions: Passion Plays
Canadian union campaigner Sharon Costello outlines how British Columbia nurses are using the arts to activate their membership base.

International: Spanish Telecom Builds Employee Portal
The prospect of on-line access for unions to company employees was outlined to Union Network International by the head of Spanish Telecommunications giant. Telefonica.

History: Husky Girls and the Female Psyche
When women entered the workforce during World War Two their male supervisors were given these simple tips to get the most out of them.

Satire: Communism Vindicated by Successful Collective Meeting
Tonight's meeting of the Marxism-Leninism Now Collective demonstrated the continuing relevance and ultimate success of communist principles, according to the Collective's Secretary, George Addison, 44.

Review: Following the Money
A new book looks at the role the bosses have played in the changing industrial relations framework.

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» Labor's IR Platform: Winding Back Reith

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» No Joy in Ministerial Mind Slip

» Parlt House Cleaners' Fight Gets Dirty

» Rural Safety Lapses' Massive Cost

» 5000 Students Back the Hands that Feed Them

» Mobile Phones Health Warning

» Bank Staff Fight Fruitpicking Future

» No Science in CSIRO Sell-Down

» Hotel Workers Target Big Chains

» Wheels of Justice Slow as Reporters Walk

» Free Political Economy Classes for Activists

» APHEDA plans Asian and Middle Eastern tours

» The Soapbox

» Sport

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» In defence of coffee

» Rail commuter warns pollies

» We want a bigger slice of pie

» Latham should watch the Footy Show

» Editor bagged

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