Hundreds of Australian broadband technicians stop work
Hundreds of Australian broadband technicians stop work Hundreds of Australian broadband technicians have walked off the job in recent days in protest over low pay, “pyramid” contracting and an unworkable job scheduling platform. The Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) has staged a series of protests in an effort to divert the anger of workers behind the corporatised unions and the Labor Party in the lead-up to the next federal election. The aim is to prevent a broader movement of workers across the logistics and telecommunications sectors amid stepped-up pro-business restr...
Source: wsws.org