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In an extraordinary intervention, union bosses have publicly attacked the CFMEU’s former national secretary and called for him to get the boot in internal elections.

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...

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand 7 May 2021 Korea: Renault Samsung autoworkers locked out Renault Samsung Motors management locked out 1,900 workers at its Busan plant, 450 kilometres south of Seoul, on Tuesday morning. Management initiated the lockout in response to strike action the previous Friday, again on Monday and a planned eight-hour walk out on Tuesday. The unionised workers voted to take strike action in February, in protest against management demands for a voluntary retirement program, a wage freeze and reduced bonus of 3 million won ($2,700), citing reduced sales...

iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 20:47 NBN technicians 'walk off job' as 100+ car convoy headed to NBN Co Sydney head office Shares With the Communications Workers Union (CWU) calling for a National Senate Inquiry into what it calls the "shambolic NBN network", over 100 subcontractors arrived outside the NBN Co North Sydney office to "protest against the NBN Co's shambolic management and pyramid contracting scheme that's leaving workers struggling to make ends meet." The CWU is the Communications Workers Union. It is the Communications Division of the Communications Electrical and P...

iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 20:47 NBN technicians 'walk off job' as 100+ car convoy headed to NBN Co Sydney head office Shares With the Communications Workers Union (CWU) calling for a National Senate Inquiry into what it calls the "shambolic NBN network", over 100 subcontractors arrived outside the NBN Co North Sydney office to "protest against the NBN Co's shambolic management and pyramid contracting scheme that's leaving workers struggling to make ends meet." The CWU is the Communications Workers Union. It is the Communications Division of the Communications Electrical and P...