Leo Wellin

Telstra: making life harderCutting a birthday cake on the day you announce your resignation after being denied a redundancy is giving life a cruel twist. Such is the experience of Bill Bogan, a Telstra employee for more than 37

CPSU members vote with their feet against Telstra agreement"Is she with Telstra or the union?", was the innocent whisper during a workplace meeting at which the Community and Public Service Union (CPSU) telecommunications section

Following the public endorsement by telecommunications industry union officials of a Telstra enterprise agreement many workplace delegates consider rotten, union militants are preparing a "Vote No" campaign for the staff ballot on the

After 16 months of negotiations, union leaders on October 22 endorsed a two-year enterprise agreement designed to deliver greater profits to Telstra. Endorsement of the deal by union officials has angered many members of the Community

Telstra's announcement of a $3 billion profit in the last financial year helped galvanise staff support for a strike on August 28. The strike was called by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and the Communications,

Telstra unions strike over enterprise agreementTelstra workers in the Community and Public Sector Union voted overwhelmingly for a 24-hour strike on August 28 to protest Telstra's latest enterprise agreement offer, announced to

Thousands of Telstra workers covered by the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) attended stop-work meetings around the country on August 13 to hear the latest offer for a new two-year enterprise agreement. The other

An ominous silence from Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) officials has marked the end of the first stage of Telstra privatisation. By November 17, after weeks of being tied up in working parties and negotiations over an

CPSU confuses members in Telstra strikeFor the first time in 10 years, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), which represents 10,000 staff at Telstra, coordinated a successful 24-hour strike against giant phone company on

Questions about Telstra CEOIn the midst of all the corporate hype about transparency in decision making, being accountable and "taking ownership of the customer", the personal business interests of Telstra's CEO have raised

Telstra dismisses union delegateIn a test case against unlawful dismissal, union militant Mervyn Vogt is appealing to the Federal Court against Telstra's sacking of him for producing a rank and file newsletter. Vogt, a

A step toward performance-based pay in TelstraTelstra members of the Community and Public Sector Union late last year overwhelmingly endorsed a competency-based pay structure that demands "increased productivity and increased