SLD 10/23 - Member Survey
MEMBER SURVEY – CEPU EBA IN TELSTRA – SOME DELAY
As members return from holidays and the CEPU is preparing for the next period in its EBA campaign in Telstra, we are about to conduct a survey of members regarding various aspects of the EBA campaign.
We notified you last Friday that the CEPU member AUSPOLL survey regarding the EBA in Telstra would begin today.
Due to logistical problems it will begin later this week.
The survey will be conducted by AUSPOLL, on-line. The survey access will be sent to you via email. Please follow the instructions carefully as you only get one chance. If you don’t receive the email, please remember to check your trash/delete folders.
Please take the time (it is a short survey) to fill it in and return it as this will be a great assistance in our planning for the period ahead.
Obviously, the survey will not replace our regular member meetings, telephone conferences and other membership contact.
We will organise another series of member meetings and telephone conferences shortly.
MEMBERS EBA CONFERENCE - GREAT EFFORT
The CEPU members conference about the EBA campaign in Telstra, held Saturday 30 January 2010, was an important event in establishing the next stage of our EBA campaign in Telstra.
Over 100 representatives of members in Victoria took part either directly or via telephone conference.
The conference overwhelmingly decided to continue the EBA campaign and step up the action on all fronts. Members are still angry that Telstra would discriminate against them relative to those on ECAs, to the tune of anything from $10,000 to $20,000 less over the life of the agreement, not to mention losses in superannuation, allowances, overtime etc.
The conference was addressed by Divisional officials Ed Husic and Burt Blackburne, Branch Secretary Len Cooper and P&T Branch Organiser Val Butler.
The representatives came from a wide range of areas both operationally and geographically and they decided to step the strike and other industrial action, now that most members have returned from their holidays. They also decided to combine the industrial action with a public and political campaign to expose managements double standards on a range of issues including management remuneration, customer service standards, employee mistreatment, corporate governance, waste of shareholder funds/share holder value etc.
A special web site “Telstragreed.com.au” will be established as an aid to the campaign.
Considerable discussion also took place about Telstra’s decade and a half long project to de-unionise the company, and the similarity between that project and the union busting techniques that come out of the United States of America and union busting companies from that country.
The delegates at the conference made a number of good suggestions about additional effective industrial action and public action which will be of great value to the EBA campaign.
please note: Go to the web site www.cepu.net.au to access the papers distributed to the conference.
LEN COOPER
Branch Secretary
M. 0438 389 302
