Unions beat Telstra discrimination

Date: 14 April 2000

CPSU National Secretary, Wendy Caird

'Round one'to the unions

The CPSU today welcomed Telstra Managing Director Rob Cartwright's concession that the company would not discriminate against award employees in its redundancy process. Mr Cartwright has been forced to retract his direction to his managers regarding the redundancy process.

CPSU National Secretary Wendy Caird said, 'While we are pleased that Mr Cartwright has retracted his direction, we are still putting Telstra on notice. Any further action to single out union members will be vigorously opposed by the Telstra unions and an application for an interim order would be reissued.'

In light of Mr Cartwright's statement to the Court today, the CPSU will not proceed with the injunction application, but will continue to press for a penalty to be imposed for what it called a 'blatant threat to discriminate against its union employees'.

'It is essential that a penalty be imposed against Telstra. If one of Australia's largest companies is able to make threats of this kind and get away with it then it will be open season on all union members.'

CPSU will ask the Court to set a date for the trial as soon as possible.

Comment
Adrian O'Connell
0418 977 170
Stephen Jones
0417 261 152

For further information

Contact:	Adrian O’Connell
Union:	CPSU - National Office
Phone:	0418 977 170
WWW:	www.cpsu.org

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