November 2018

Together, we have just set in motion proposed changes that will secure your Union’s strength and resilience for generations to come. Decades-long wars on jobs by employers in our industries have dealt significant blows to some of the core, traditional sections of our Union’s membership. Savage job cuts, unfair and insecure contracting models and technological advancement and disruption have significantly

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For some time your Union has been highlighting the plight of telecommunication industry workers who find themselves stuck in a cycle of systemic insecure work. Some of the major contractors to Telstra and NBN have established, what we refer to as, pyramid subcontracting schemes – driven by the extreme ends of corporate greed. Under these pyramid subcontracting schemes, the worker

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Last week saw one of the biggest network outages to ever hit Telstra – leaving businesses stranded without EFTPOS, the public without access to ATMs, and almost 800 criminals walking free with electronic monitoring bracelets failing for more than 24 hours. Most concerningly, this outage comes on the back of Telstra’s mass sacking of hundreds of skilled workers across the

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A large-scale Telstra outage that has shut down ATMs around the country, has come just days after Telstra announced the axing of 360 technical field employees – the very people with the skills to fix major issues like this. CEPU NSW Branch Secretary and National President, Shane Murphy, said that Telstra announced it would be axing the 360 jobs on

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