iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 20:47 NBN technicians walk off job as 100+ car convoy headed to NBN Co Sydney head office
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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 Plumbing Union (CEPU), and says it represents all workers in the telecommunications, information technology and postal industries.
THE BT Group is facing its first national strike for over three decades as the CWU prepares to ballot members over compulsory redundancies and site closures.
The communications union announced today that it would consult its 45,000 BT Group members at BT, Openreach and mobile network operator EE on industrial action.
It would be the first national strike at BT since 1987, with millions of customers potentially facing disruption.
The union’s decision to ballot came after bosses refused to step back from imposing a so-called modernisation strategy on the workforce.
General secretary Dave Ward said: “Thousands of our members across BT, Openreach and EE have been key workers during the pandemic.
COVID-19 has ripped through a DHL depot in Manchester after management failed to enforce appropriate safety regulations, the CWU charged today.
The Communication Workers Union said over a third of the workforce have the virus after the parcel-delivery company allowed a day-shift manager with flu-like symptoms to return to work after a week off without completing 10 days of self-isolation or taking a coronavirus test as per government guidelines.
Concerned office and warehouse staff raised the matter at a meeting with the site manager, only to be told that the individual concerned was “confident” he did not have the virus. This is despite the fact he had come into close contact with another member of management who had already tested positive and who has now sadly died with Covid-19, the CWU said.
TENS of thousands of renters are at imminent risk of losing their homes due to a loophole in the eviction ban, campaigners warned today.
In a joint letter to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, trade unions and tenant organisations said that an estimated 840,000 people who owe more than six months’ rent could be kicked out as they struggle to make ends meet during the current Covid-19 lockdown.
The warning came as councils expressed fears of a spike in homelessness when protective measures end. A survey published today found that 10 local authorities in England expect to see a wave of evictions soon.