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The Communications Workers Union, which covers only some of the affected workers, but has substantial membership in other parts of Telstra, is working to ensure there is no organised opposition to the latest round of job cuts.

While increasing its lowest-cost mobile phone plans by 20 percent, Telstra is slashing hundreds of jobs and imposing real wage cuts.

Australia Post workers condemn secret union-management negotiations for new enterprise agreement The Communication Electrical and Plumbers Union (CEPU) advised its members at Australia Post (AP) that it began backroom negotiations with management this week for a new workplace Enterprise Agreement (EA) at the state-owned postal facility. In an email yesterday, the union complained that management had rejected its proposals for a return to regular start times, which have been substantially altere...

The CEPU’s Senate inquiry submission reveals months of backroom talks between the union and Australia Post chiefs on how to suppress workers’ opposition to the ADM or a new version of it.

Australia Post restructure driven by gig-economy overhaul of logistics and delivery Late last month, Australia Post, the state-owned postal service, announced a 15.5 percent year on year jump in revenue to $4.3 billion for the first half of the 2020-21 financial year. This was mostly on the back of a 25.9 percent increase in parcel revenue to $3.4 billion. While takings from letter mail again declined, from $1.1 billion to $900 million, cost-cutting under the Alternative Delivery Model (ADM) me...