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31st October, 2008 A widely used medical service, Nurse-on-Call, faces disruptions after staff approved a campaign of four-hour strikes over coming weeks.
Source: The Australian/AAP
30th October, 2008 Unions and environmental groups are calling on the federal government to boost jobs and investment in emerging "green collar" industries.
Source: ABC Online
30th October, 2008 The CEPU has accused Telstra of sacking an employee for blowing the whistle on company plans to de-unionise the workforce.
Source: ABC Online
30th October, 2008 The CEPU is calling on the federal and state governments to do more to stop telecommunications jobs being shifted overseas.
Source: SMH - Scott Rochfort
29th October, 2008 The unease over huge bonuses being heaped on senior executives of several poorly performing listed companies looks set to escalate into a full-blown shareholder revolt.
Source: The Age - Kevin Morgan
28th October, 2008 It would have been laughable had infrastructure spending not been so needed.
Source: ACTU
28th October, 2008 Senior Telstra management’s aggressive and uncompromising stance on the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is putting at risk $11.9 billion of shareholder value and could cost thousands of jobs for Telstra workers.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
28th October, 2008 One benefit of the gradual disintegration of Terria is that it's finally removing the "Telstra v the Rest" facade from the broadband tender and revealing what it's always been: Telstra v Optus.
Source: The Australian/AAP
23rd October, 2008 Complaints about telephone services to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) have skyrocketd by 50 per cent in the past 12 months.
Source: SMH - Asher Moses
23rd October, 2008 A Sydney telco employee has learned the hard way the perils of sharing too much information on Facebook after he was caught by his boss faking a sickie after a big night out.
Source: ACTU
22nd October, 2008 The ACTU says that the tax system must be equitable and progressive and fairly redistribute wealth and income. It must also be sufficient to fund the universal provision of high quality services.
Source: ABC Online
21st October, 2008 Telecommunications company Optus says it will cut 115 jobs within its engineering and technical division.
Source: ABC Online
20th October, 2008 Nathan Rees has convinced Unions NSW head John Robertson to replace former treasurer Michael Costa in State Parliament.
Source: SMH - Lisa Pryor
20th October, 2008 Extreme capitalism sounds like an extreme sport requiring knee pads and sponsorship by an energy drink company.
Source: SMH - Adele Horin
20th October, 2008 This year marks the 160th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, and naked capitalism is on the ropes. Banks are being nationalised, the ruling class is squirming and the proletariat is angry.
Source: The Age - Jamie Freed
20th October, 2008 Optus is poised to slash hundreds of jobs, joining the list of big companies trimming their workforces.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
17th October, 2008 Australia's no. 3 internet service provider, iiNet, will not follow AAPT in quitting the Terria broadband consortium.
Source: ACTU
17th October, 2008 Unions have welcomed moves towards increased regulation of executive remuneration in the banking sector as part of better protection for Australian households.
Source: The Land
17th October, 2008 Mobile phone coverage and access to broadband have topped a list of telecommunications concerns among rural residents.
Source: SMH - Michael Evans
17th October, 2008 And to think some in the community are concerned about corporate excess. Tomorrow, 30 of Trujillo's high achievers are off to Hawaii.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
16th October, 2008 Telecom NZ's share price has plumbed 16-year lows after it dropped profit forecasts for this financial year by as much as 8 per cent while embarking on a spending binge to regain lost customers.
Source: The Age
16th October, 2008 Luxury car dealer Normal Elkordi has never seen it this bad - financial high-flyers feeling the pinch of the global economic meltdown scrambling to sell their Ferraris for a loss.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
16th October, 2008 The credibility of the Optus-led Terria broadband group has been weakened by the sudden withdrawal of its No.2 member, AAPT.
Source: ABC Online
16th October, 2008 Telstra has criticised many of the findings of an independent review of regional telecommunications.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
16th October, 2008 Australia Post's performance in the year to June 30 delivered the Government an annual dividend of $334.6 million, in addition to the $150 million special dividend it claimed as part of the May federal budget.
Source: The Australian/AAP
15th October, 2008 The global financial crisis will drive up the cost of building the national broadband network (NBN), Telstra's chief financial officer John Stanhope says.
Source: The Land - Phil Thomson
14th October, 2008 Telstra staff numbers at Orange in the NSW Central West will be cut by almost 30 per cent.
Source: ABC Online
13th October, 2008 Six months after CDMA was switched off, there are calls for Telstra to reveal a plan to improve mobile reception in rural areas.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
13th October, 2008 It's been almost a year since Seven Network completed a $169 million takeover of junior wireless broadband player Unwired.
Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
10th October, 2008 More than 500 Telstra call centre jobs, including at least 200 in Melbourne, are to be transferred to the Philippines.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
9th October, 2008 Telstra and its rivals locked horns again yesterday over plans for a $10 billion-plus national broadband network.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
9th October, 2008 Telstra is not ruling out accepting regulated pricing in return for the Government's $4.7 billion broadband kitty.
Source: ABC Online
9th October, 2008 A consortium bidding to build a high-speed broadband network for Australia says regulators should not cave in to outrageous demands from rival bidder Telstra.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
8th October, 2008 Telstra has been forced to respond to concerns that senior management's heavy-handed tactics threaten its chance of winning $4.7 billion in taxpayer funding to build a national broadband network.
Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
7th October, 2008 Unions will make a late push to force changes to the overhaul of Australia's workplace system as the ACTU comes under pressure to make sure the new legislation is not "WorkChoices lite".
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
6th October, 2008 Having pocketed $13.4 million this year Telstra's boss, Sol Trujillo, has been moonlighting for his best pal, John McCain
Source: ABC Online
2nd October, 2008 The union movement is vowing to keep fighting if it is unhappy with the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws.
Source: ACTU
2nd October, 2008 Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, with collective bargaining at its centre.
Source: ACTU
1st October, 2008 The Productivity Commission’s proposal for an 18 week, government-funded paid maternity leave scheme would bring relief and financial security to tens of thousands of working mothers and their families.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
1st October, 2008 Qantas's departing boss, Geoff Dixon, was paid almost $12 million last financial year, at the same time he was calling for wage restraint from staff.
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