Event had been Postponed until Wednesday the 29th at 12:30pm to co-ordinate our Action with Affected Staff!
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Telstra made a $3.2billion profit last year. Now they want to sacrifice community jobs to make even more – human need not corporate greed – hey telstra,whats your hangup??
Occupy Sydney says no to Corporate Greed and Australian based Corporations offshoring work which can be done by Australian Workers in the name of increasing profits.
A Snap Protest has been called for Tomorrow, Wednesday the 22nd, 5pm at 231 Elizabeth Street, Sydney CBD (Map Below)
BANNER & PLACARD MAKING TOMORROW ARVO @ OCCUPY SYDNEY, MARTIN PLACE
In 2011 Telstra reported a profit of $3.231 billion – a profit earned by its workers.
Telstra will sack 422 full-time staff and 229 staff employed through agencies as it streamlines services, with some of the jobs headed offshore.
About 235 staff will go from its Melbourne operations, 174 from Sydney and 242 from two call centres Telstra will close in Lismore in regional NSW and Townsville in Queensland.
These staff currently work in Telstra’s service centres and FOXTEL call centres. Telstra is shifting some of the roles to the Philippines.
Business customers will still be served by an Australian call centre.
Telstra is part way through an efficiency and restructuring drive. The company says the job cuts are necessary as more customers access Telstra services on the internet rather than through call centres.
The closures include two consumer contact centres in Lismore and part of Telstra’s Townsville site, with the calls being absorbed by other Telstra and FOXTEL contact centres, a Telstra spokeswoman said.
Vodafone customers are already fleeing in droves in part because of the inept call centres they maintain offshore. The service is abysmal. And Vodafone customers are paying. Telstra customers will pay too in frustration and angst if not in devaluation of service quality.
This is another example of Australian Corporations, some of whom started as Publicly Owned offshoring work and increasing unemployment and worker insecurity in the name of Profit Seeking and short Term Gain. Occupy Sydney has protested against this before when Westpac Axed 188 jobs earlier in the year and had Australian workers train their overseas replacements.
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9 Responses to “No Offshoring of Telstra Jobs – Snap Protest Called! (Postponed)”
This is what happens when all our property is sold to corporations by complicit governments.Hang the next parliament again.Do not vote for either major party.
Here we go again, as soon as Telstra sign off on the NBN abd get their hands on $11 BIllion of taxpayers money, they start sending our jobs off shore again, to Manila. Telstra Management really think and espouse that the workers in Manila do a “great” job, not sure were they get that from, everyone I speak to think they suck.
Now they are “Bargaining In Good Faith” on a new EBA for the few workers left in Australia, good faith my arse.
Before the bargaining had commenced, Telstra had already submitted it’s preferred EBA model to Fair Work Australia, which was thankfully rejected, it included increased hours were no penalties would apply, pay increases tied to performance, and we all know how damned hard it is to meet their performance models, reduced penatiy rates for working Saturdays and Sundays by 50%.
C’mon Telstra, stop treating you staff and the Australian taxpayers as your ATM, it’s time Government stepped in and investigated Telstra and it’s multitude of lies and deceipt.
Telstra off shoring is simply about returns for Share Holders, more people using the INternet to contact Telstra is more to do with the frustration we all have with trying to speak to someone off shore that has very poor english skills, is very robotic in their approach, and has no concept of Australia and it’s culture and who invariably hang up on you – but off course not before asking you to stay on the line and take part in their stupid survey, all staff must do this otherwise they don’t meet their performance expectations, and are also now expected to try and sell you product, again failure affects thier performance expectations. And their you have it, no chance of getting a pay increase.
I thought Occupy championed wealth sharing globally. I thought improving the life of those 99% living in India/Pakistan or whereever was also important? Taking people out of poverty in those countries will only be achieved by bringing in work/corporate investment. Or is Occupy a section of the union movement?
Speaking for myself I believe everyone everywhere deserves a decent income & job. In this case an australian corporation is transferring jobs overseas where they can pay less and overwork them without overtime pay or any of the benefits workers might enjoy in this country. And taking people out of poverty in the third world will not be done by corporations, if anything corporations create a new form of slavery in the third world, by getting countries into debt via the IMF and World Bank and then making the people pay them back with their labour & resources.
The best way to get of poverty is to declare the debts odious and get the corporations out, to let the people of the third world forge their own path without interference from the first world.
Also Occupy will support Unions who have legitimate issues with their employers but we have not and will not be co-opted by them or any other group.
The reality is that private corporate investment in India and China has decisively reduced the levels of poverty in those nations. Sure the pull of low wages has drawn companies there however those wages and conditions have gradually improved. Australia’s problem is that even compared to other western countries we have ruined our labour market and struggle to compete. Minimum wage (in Aussie Dollars) in UK is $9.36, in the US is $7.25, in Holland is $10.29 and NZ is $13.50. In Australia it’s $16.
You obviously agree with Gina Reinhart, if you wanna work in an african mine for $2 a day while your boss makes billions please go ahead. While we in Australia do have higher on average wages that is offset by higher prices on food, housing, rent, fuel etc. It’s well documented that in the western world over the past 30 years that wages have stagnated or declined while private profits have at least tripled, the middle class is declining while the 1% have $21 Trillion in tax free havens and the Fed in the USA has handed out over $16 Trillion to banks around the world since 2008, but does the average person see this money trickle down ? No, it’s used to keep the casino economy going while the gap between rich & poor gets even wider. Most people in the USA & Europe are having to put up with austerity while the banks are doing fine, but hey somehow according to you we’re not “competitive” enough, That’s a code word for, we (the 1%) can’t make enough money form the first world so lets enslave the third world.
The increase in wages fuels the increase in cost of living fuels the increase in wages. That would be fine if the labour market maintained a certain level but we are a nation amongst a global economy. If the cost of production in Australia is greater than elsewhere then the production and jobs go elsewhere. Bleat about the 1% all you like, this is a fact and we are witnessing it right now. The fact is small manufacturers in Australia are not shifting overseas, they are just closing. Your suggestion of “competitive” being a code word completely misses the point.
Happy Birthday Occupy. I hope you both have a great day and find time to pause and think of the huge difference Occupy has made to the world this past year. Err, ok then think about all the new hand signals you have learned.
Anyway, respect to you particularly Liam for at least sticking it out. The rest who proved it was just a fart in the night, no respect.
In many countries you can not provide services from another country
If you go of shore to do business by paying workers over there,
then you have to sell services over there not here
Government is to blame always as some idiots in government are making
A lot of money and he or they r behind it.
Gulia gilard is making too many cuts to force people
to work. Question is:Where to work? When all jobs are going of shore
plus many illegal immigrants work here for less
If one day au gov stops centrelink i bet a lot of people will
be leaving aus and many problems will start
Criminal,corruption,etc
I dont know why we are following the mistakes
Of Europe and Usa which will affect us a lot
All the world is going toward modern feudalism which is using
labour to maximum and assuming that all Human’s have same needs
the way economy is going will be catastrophic bcause
we dont think about humanity and existence only
for individual wealth
if everything goes wrong way,you would not
need anything as there will not be any money in the world what can save
them no matter how rich they are.
P.S human lives on average 70-80 yo
No matter rich or poor
so why being so greedy like telstra people