Source: The Age - Alex Millmow
30th January, 2009

These are sad times for the Chicago School of Economics, which gave the world such creeds as monetarism, human capital theory, rational expectations and the now-infamous efficient market hypothesis.

Source: ACTU
30th January, 2009

Telstra must review its industrial relations strategy after the Australian Electoral Commission cast fresh doubt on the validity of non-union workplace ballots conducted by the company.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
29th January, 2009

Two workplace ballots at Telstra last year were flawed and did not meet the Australian Electoral Commission's minimum standards, the AEC says.

Source: ABC Online
24th January, 2009

Telstra says it has no knowledge of any abandoned plans to improve mobile phone reception along a highway in south-west NSW.

Source: ABC Online
23rd January, 2009

More than a thousand homes and businesses in Victoria's south west are without a phone or internet connection because of a Telstra network fault.

Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
23rd January, 2009

Another of the three Americans Sol Trujillo brought to Telstra will return home next week.

Source: The Age - Vanessa O'Shaughnessy
23rd January, 2009

Australians have suffered their worst losses on superannuation in living memory, with typical funds losing an average of almost 20 per cent in 2008, new figures reveal.

Source: ABC Online
22nd January, 2009

The ACTU is urging the Federal Government to release a stimulus package targeted at saving jobs in the wake of huge losses in the mining sector yesterday.

Source: The Age
22nd January, 2009

Telstra is losing its Chief Operating Officer, Greg Winn, who is returning home to the United States to pursue ''personal interests''.

Source: The Australian/AAP
21st January, 2009

A second Government-funded economic stimulus package aimed at saving jobs is needed urgently, trade unions say.

Source: ACTU
21st January, 2009

Unions have welcomed strong indications from the Prime Minister that the Government is preparing for a second stimulus package for the Australian economy.

Source: The Age
20th January, 2009

Three mobile phone companies have been taken to court over alleged text message spam sent to mobile phones.

Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
20th January, 2009

Sol Trujillo, has floated a proposal to construct a $44 billion broadband network to upgrade fixed and mobile networks to unprecedented speeds - but not in Australia.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
19th January, 2009

Telstra has been accused of pressuring staff and running unfair workplace elections, with claims that employees are being left in the dark over basic details.

Source: ACTU
16th January, 2009

Employers must not use the uncertain jobs market to pressure workers into accepting cuts to their pay and conditions, unions said today in response to new unemployment data.

Source: SMH - Miriam Steffens
15th January, 2009

Optus has been given a slap on the wrist by the media and communications regulator, which has ordered it to pay a $110,000 fine for spamming its mobile phone customers.

Source: ACTU
14th January, 2009

Labor’s proposed industrial relations legislation fails to fully deliver on the Rudd Government’s pre-election promise to scrap WorkChoices and restore workers’ rights, says the ACTU.

Source: ABC Online - Emma Rodgers
14th January, 2009

ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence says the Government's decision to outlaw pattern bargaining means it is failing to adequately protect workers.

Source: The Age - Ben Schneiders
14th January, 2009

A much-touted workplace reform allowing employees to request flexible conditions at work has no purpose or value, unions say, and leaves employees worse off than under WorkChoices.

Source: Crikey - Stilgherrian
13th January, 2009

Confused by Telstra’s rejected low-cal bid for the National Broadband Network? Let’s stir some new jargon into the stew: "DOCSIS 3" and "dark fibre".

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
10th January, 2009

Telstra's double act of Sol Trujillo and Donald McGauchie is engaged in a high-risk two-step with the Government over the building of the national broadband network.

Source: The Age - Dan Oakes
9th January, 2009

Telstra's revenue would be affected only marginally by its ejection from the national broadband network, a bullish Sol Trujillo said yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
9th January, 2009

Sol Trujillo has admitted up to $2 billion of the company's revenues are at long-term risk if a competitor builds a national broadband network.

Source: Herald Sun - George Lekakis and Geoff Easdown
9th January, 2009

Corporate Australia's push to export IT jobs to India is in disarray following a $1.84 billion fraud involving one of the world's key outsourcing companies.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
9th January, 2009

Telstra's directors, including the chief executive, Sol Trujillo, have descended on the most unorthodox of destinations for a board meeting - the world's gambling capital.

Source: ABC Online
8th January, 2009

ACTU president Sharan Burrow has dismissed a Federal Government call for wage restraint and is standing by a 33 per cent pay claim for some mining workers.

Source: ACTU
7th January, 2009

The prospect of an economic downturn must not be used by business as an excuse to delay or alter improvements to our industrial relations system that Australians voted for at the last election.

Source: The Australian/AAP
7th January, 2009

A call centre worker who claimed he was treated unfairly by Telstra because he was Australian and more outspoken than foreign-born colleagues has lost an anti-discrimination case.

Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
6th January, 2009

Thousands of Telstra workers are set to resume rolling strikes and overtime bans this weekend after a lull in industrial action over the Christmas-New Year break.

Source: SMH - Vanda Carson
5th January, 2009

The Optus "facilities maintenance centre" on the corner of Epsom Road and Dalmery Avenue in Rosebery looks like any other large glass-fronted office building.