TELSTRA: CWU CHALLENGES DESIGN BANDING DECISIONS The CWU continues to pursue issues arising out of the Design banding review being conducted in Network Services. Many CWU members have expressed concerns about both the process and the outcomes of this review which Telstra says is aimed at getting consistency in the banding of roles across the …
ANNUAL REPORT TO MEMBERS 2015 It is with great pleasure that I present the 2015 Branch Annual Report, my first as Branch Secretary, and with a great deal of positive news (tempered with some negative aspects) to expand on. Despite this, there are some significant threats on the horizon, but we firstly need to look …
FINANCIAL REPORT
Telstra EA ‘Vote No’
WORKING IN HOT WEATHER Prepared by Peggy Trompf, Industrial Health Matters (in association with Workers Health Centre), 8/10/2012 (mob: 0419221 373). Sydney While OHS Authorities have produced guidelines and information on working in hot conditions, there are no regulatory OHS standards for working in seasonal heat. Workers need to have good information about the health …
Telstra Award Modernisation – NO threat to redundancy entitlements The CWU has received a number of calls from members concerned about the impact of award modernisation on their current redundancy entitlements, particularly the 80 weeks (maximum) payout provided for in the Telstra Enterprise Agreement 2012-15. It appears that some members have been told that the …
The Hon. Tony Abbott, Prime Minister, Parliament House Canberra Dear Prime Minister, OFFSHORING OF JOBS FROM TELSTRA We write to you about a very vexed issue: the offshoring of high-tech, reasonably well paid Telstra jobs to India and other places. Increasingly, workers employed by foreign companies are being used to replace Telstra workers. Telstra has …
The CWU has been continuing to pursue issues arising out of the proposed reorganisation of Wideband teams, including the related redundancies of a number of CFW7 members. The union met with Telstra on 22nd October to put its view that Telstra was in breach of the current classification system by getting CFW4 employees to perform …
NBN Co appears to have frozen discussions over three new enterprise agreements currently being negotiated with the company. For some time there has been no further progress in the negotiations and no meetings are scheduled at this stage. We understand that the two other unions which have agreements with NBN Co, the CPSU and Professionals …
Australian workers’ wages are growing at the slowest rate for 16 years, recently released figures show. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) quarterly wage price index for Australia shows that the “seasonally adjusted Wage Price Index (WPI) rose 0.6 per cent in the September quarter 2014 and 2.6 per cent over the last year.” …