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Telstra & Human Rights - They Must Be Joking!

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Cobber

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Feb 16, 2009, 6:25:40 PM2/16/09
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So Telstra is adopting the high moral ground and rightly saying that the
Howard Govt's record was appalling - which of course it was - with children
being held in immigration prisons for up to 7 years.

However Telstra would be well advised to get its own house in order first.
Never mind human rights - Telstra's treatment of its staff is absolutely
appalling. There are repeated instances where they have failed to treat
staff with even the most basic respect. Indeed they have treated them very
unethically.

For many years Telstra has followed an unofficial practice of harrassment,
bullying, treating staff badly to try and force them into resignation (and
where that fails using involuntry redundancies innappropriately), blatant
age discrimination, leaving people out of the loop, saying one thing and
doing another etc etc.

Last year official company documents revealed a secret strategy used by
Telstra management to get 15,000 employees onto Australian Workplace
Agreements ahead of a ban on them which came into force in March 2008.

The Telstra secret training kit laid out a deliberate plan for human
resources managers to unethically induce Telstra employees to transfer onto
Work Choices AWAs which reduced their rights in the last days before being
banned by the Rudd government.

The tricks used by Telstra managers included profiling of workers’
vulnerable pressure points to sign an AWA, a bonus system for managers to
sign their staff up to AWAs, and guidelines for scripts about how to
convince particular workers to sign.

I could go on and on and on....... Is this a company that truly values its
workers and treats them with respect - definitely not! Their current human
rights position is nothing but a publicity stunt. Watch what Telstra
management do.. not what they say.

Rod Speed

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Feb 16, 2009, 11:14:27 PM2/16/09
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You should do the decent thing and set fire to yourself in 'protest' outside Telstra HQ or sumfin.


Belinda Belfry

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Feb 18, 2009, 3:52:37 PM2/18/09
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"Rod Speed" <rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6vurscF...@mid.individual.net...
Are you sure your name is Rod Speed and not God Speed????


Will Kemp

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Feb 18, 2009, 4:42:22 PM2/18/09
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You've blown his cover now! His name is God really, but he's very modest
and doesn't like to flash it about.

Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF

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Feb 18, 2009, 8:17:11 PM2/18/09
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What? Do you have bats in your belfry?

--
"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.

"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.

"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.

/False/Flag/

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Feb 20, 2009, 2:28:55 AM2/20/09
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Where is 'Michael', the tel$tra sychophant?
He shouldve been onto this one faster than Superman folds his laundry.

Will Kemp

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Feb 20, 2009, 1:00:57 PM2/20/09
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That's a bit unfair on Michael. He's not a telstra sycophant. But he
doesn't make much sense most of the time.

Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF

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Feb 20, 2009, 6:38:06 PM2/20/09
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Ah, so he works for their helpdesk.

Cobber

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Feb 23, 2009, 7:36:08 PM2/23/09
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"Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF" <arselifter...@dickheads.con>
wrote in news:01af3459$0$16735$c3e...@news.astraweb.com:

I suspect Michael knows that I am dead right and so is staying away from
this one! Telstra has two faces, one for the public and an ugly one for
staff when it comes to industrial relations issues. And believe me they
are very different faces indeed.

Rod Speed

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Feb 24, 2009, 2:28:46 PM2/24/09
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Or he only shows up every month or so now. He's out of
the country with Sol the Wog, furiously cleaning his dunny.

> Telstra has two faces, one for the public and an ugly
> one for staff when it comes to industrial relations issues.
> And believe me they are very different faces indeed.

They should use the approach china uses, bullet in the back of the neck and send the bill for the bullet to the relos.


Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF

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Feb 24, 2009, 9:36:24 PM2/24/09
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>>>>>> workersÂ’ vulnerable pressure points to sign an AWA, a bonus

>>>>>> system for managers to sign their staff up to AWAs, and
>>>>>> guidelines for scripts about how to convince particular workers
>>>>>> to sign.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I could go on and on and on....... Is this a company that truly
>>>>>> values its workers and treats them with respect - definitely not!
>>>>>> Their current human rights position is nothing but a publicity
>>>>>> stunt. Watch what Telstra management do.. not what they say.
>>>>> Where is 'Michael', the tel$tra sychophant?
>>>> That's a bit unfair on Michael. He's not a telstra sycophant. But he
>>>> doesn't make much sense most of the time.
>>> Ah, so he works for their helpdesk.
>
>> I suspect Michael knows that I am dead right and so is staying away from this one!
>
> Or he only shows up every month or so now. He's out of
> the country with Sol the Wog, furiously cleaning his dunny.

LOL! Seems we have more than one toilet cleaner around.

>> Telstra has two faces, one for the public and an ugly
>> one for staff when it comes to industrial relations issues.
>> And believe me they are very different faces indeed.
>
> They should use the approach china uses, bullet in the back of the neck and send the bill for the bullet to the relos.

I wonder if the relatives ever pay up?

Rod Speed

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Feb 25, 2009, 2:24:27 AM2/25/09
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>>>>>>> workers’ vulnerable pressure points to sign an AWA, a bonus

>>>>>>> system for managers to sign their staff up to AWAs, and
>>>>>>> guidelines for scripts about how to convince particular workers
>>>>>>> to sign.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I could go on and on and on....... Is this a company that truly
>>>>>>> values its workers and treats them with respect - definitely
>>>>>>> not! Their current human rights position is nothing but a
>>>>>>> publicity stunt. Watch what Telstra management do.. not what
>>>>>>> they say.
>>>>>> Where is 'Michael', the tel$tra sychophant?
>>>>> That's a bit unfair on Michael. He's not a telstra sycophant. But
>>>>> he doesn't make much sense most of the time.
>>>> Ah, so he works for their helpdesk.
>>
>>> I suspect Michael knows that I am dead right and so is staying away
>>> from this one!
>>
>> Or he only shows up every month or so now. He's out of
>> the country with Sol the Wog, furiously cleaning his dunny.
>
> LOL! Seems we have more than one toilet cleaner around.
>
>>> Telstra has two faces, one for the public and an ugly
>>> one for staff when it comes to industrial relations issues.
>>> And believe me they are very different faces indeed.
>>
>> They should use the approach china uses, bullet in the back of the
>> neck and send the bill for the bullet to the relos.
>
> I wonder if the relatives ever pay up?

Corse they do, if they dont, its another bullet in the back of the neck for them too.

And the bill for both bullets goes to the remaining relos.

Even the stupidest eventually get the message and pay up.


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