Telstra cable installers strike

[NewsMan]

EIGHTY Telstra sub-contractors, who install Foxtel and broadband services,
barricaded the Telstra head office in Melbourne today to protest against the
terms of new contracts on offer.

The workers met this morning at Box Hill, in Melbourne's east, to discuss
the new contracts and drove their trucks along the Eastern Freeway into the
city to surround the Telstra building.
Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union branch secretary Len Cooper
said the workers had voted to stop work until the dispute was resolved.

He said the dispute involved 90 people who had been offered new contracts by
two companies recently contracted by Telstra.

"They are trying to sign them up on contracts with a 20 per cent drop in
earnings," Mr Cooper said.

"We are trying to work out who is the culprit, Telstra or the contractors,
but we suspect it's Telstra."

Mr Cooper said the dispute would probably be resolved quickly.

"It's likely to be quicker rather than later, as the Sydney contractors have
also gone out in sympathy for at least 48 hours and there are meetings in
Queensland and Perth," he said.

Mr Cooper said he would try to meet senior Telstra officials today, but if
the dispute was not resolved, workers would meet again on Wednesday to
decide what course of action to take.

"There's some talk of having a blockade outside of Foxtel at Moonee Ponds,"
he said.........




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On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had
something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
-- Dan Spencer

[Me]

I have had the misfortune of having to be home for the installation of 4
separate services, and I tell ya, if the slow moving cunts weren't
breathing, I swear I would have thought they were dead.


"NewsMan" <cocopops@nospam.hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:bqhbo2$1h1n$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> EIGHTY Telstra sub-contractors, who install Foxtel and broadband services,
> barricaded the Telstra head office in Melbourne today to protest against
the
> terms of new contracts on offer.
>
> The workers met this morning at Box Hill, in Melbourne's east, to discuss
> the new contracts and drove their trucks along the Eastern Freeway into
the
> city to surround the Telstra building.
> Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union branch secretary Len Cooper
> said the workers had voted to stop work until the dispute was resolved.
>
> He said the dispute involved 90 people who had been offered new contracts
by
> two companies recently contracted by Telstra.
>
> "They are trying to sign them up on contracts with a 20 per cent drop in
> earnings," Mr Cooper said.
>
> "We are trying to work out who is the culprit, Telstra or the contractors,
> but we suspect it's Telstra."
>
> Mr Cooper said the dispute would probably be resolved quickly.
>
> "It's likely to be quicker rather than later, as the Sydney contractors
have
> also gone out in sympathy for at least 48 hours and there are meetings in
> Queensland and Perth," he said.
>
> Mr Cooper said he would try to meet senior Telstra officials today, but if
> the dispute was not resolved, workers would meet again on Wednesday to
> decide what course of action to take.
>
> "There's some talk of having a blockade outside of Foxtel at Moonee
Ponds,"
> he said.........
>
>
>
>
> --
> Details:
>
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8029956%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
> More news:
> http://www.auspaytv.com.au/forums/ipdl.php
>
> ***
>
> On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had
> something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
> -- Dan Spencer
>
>