November 2016

Jim Metcher today volunteered to stand aside from his position as CEPU NSW State Secretary while it is proposed that the Committee of Management, assisted by members of the National Executive, undertakes a process to establish and verify the facts surrounding accusations made in recent days by the media. In the interim, I will act as Acting Branch Secretary. Jim

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Breaches of customer privacy involving overseas call centres are entirely predictable, according to the Communications Union. They were responding to reporting by Fairfax that corrupt insiders in overseas call centres are selling the personal and private data belonging to Australian Telstra, Optus and Vodafone customers. According to the reports, the information is sold to third parties who in turn on-sell

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Following a summit held recently between Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour and your CEPU leadership team, negotiations for a new EBA9 to replace the current EBA8 is scheduled to commence from Tuesday next week. The Bargaining Process Your Union maintains that the best possible outcome for members is to secure a back-to-back Agreement without any gaps between the nominal expiry

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