Telstra: shafting workers? What a surprise!

As long as I can remember, Telstra has treated workers badly. While there always seems to be money for obscene executive packages, there is never enough for sufficient staff. Over the years we have had the absurd explanation for getting rid of people that they're 'downsizing' in order to improve services. I mention that just to demonstrate how much contempt one CEO after another has had for the public's intelligence.

Today I'm on about their despicable push to get their remaining employees onto AWAs ahead of the deadline . It's worth taking a look at their 'training kit' to see just what they've been up to. Drop Telstra a line to let them know what you think of them. Here's the HeraldSun article.

I'm angry at Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard for providing Telstra (and others) with a window of opportunity to do this. They are taking too damn long fixing the IR situation and "Forward with Fairness" is (though better than what it amends) hardly adequate. In their desire to take control of Industrial Relations into federal hands, they're dragging their feet in protecting those who voted them in.

The Evatt Foundation

There's a lot of good 'stuff' to explore on the Evatt Foundation site: http://www.evatt.org.au/

You might find the excerpt from Inserting a New Dialectic: Governance of interest, especially as it’s written by Kevin Rudd (in his pre-leadership days).