
Issue No 67		18 August 2000

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Telstra Risks Roasting Workers

By Mary Yaager

CEPU President Laurie Chalker hot under the collar and up in arms about Telstra placing their members at risk of being electrocuted.

Chalker said that electrical cables had been installed inside Telstras exclusive communication pipes.

If one of our the telstra or other construction workers was to cut this cable thinking it was communication wires, they would be electrocuted Calker said.

Jeff Forbes CEPU Sub Branch Secretary on the North Coast has fighting to have this and other safety issues addressed raised with Telstra to no avail.

The CEPU has also raised the seriousness of issue with Telstra and have been ignored.

The CEPU has called on Labor Councils Safety Watchdog Mar Yaager to intervene.

Yaags has called on WorkCover who given assurances the issue will be rectified.

Yaags says she cannot believe the attitude of Telstra on a matter as serious as the lives of the workers.

Good one Telstra.

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Issue 67 contents

Interview: Slyly Selling the Silver
In their recently published book Privatisation, Sell-off? or Sell out? (ABC Books), Bob and Betty Walker took a long hard look at the major government asset sales of the last decade. Here they tell Workers Online what they've learnt.

Politics: Dysfunctional Society
Noel Pearson looks at the plight of Aboriginal people through a prism of class and comes up with a challenging perspective on Aboriginal welfare, law and order and the state of our society.

History: Money Power
Should the People or the Banks Rule? Reserve Bank Governor McFarlane thinks he knows the answer. Eddie Ward was pretty strongly of the opposite view when the ALP introduced the Commonwealth Banking Legislation in 1945.

International: Soccer Pro Tackles Nike
Olympic sponsor Nike is under pressure over its human rights record in the run up to the Sydney Games.

Economics: Globalony
Frank Stillwell looks at the contradictory nature of the globalising economy and fears it is turning into a race to the bottom.

Satire: IVF Debate: Federal Government Tells Lesbians: "Get Fucked"
MELBOURNE, Monday: The Federal Court decision to allow single women and lesbians to use infertility treatment in Victoria has been attacked by the Federal Government, the Catholic Church and by pro-family community groups.

Review: Confessions Of A Union Buster
It's not a new tome but the threat for Australian Unions remains the same if not greater as when this book appeared five years ago.

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