Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, October 5th, 2009 - 1 comment
Categories: workers' rights -
Tags: epmu, telecom, visionstream
Visionstream completed its takeover of the Auckland and Northland patch on Thursday and it’s now become clear that they’ve failed to meet the terms of their contract with Telecom as workers have continued to hold out despite being made redundant.
The situation is just crazy. Because of Telecom’s mismanagement there are now hundreds of redundant lines engineers sitting at home without work while Northland suffers from more than 1000 unresolved faults and wait times for faults in Auckland have blown out to unacceptable levels.
As a result Telecom has had to admit that its model isn’t working and has agreed to enter talks with the union to try and find a solution to this mess. That’s a huge change of tone, and offers the first hope this dispute might be starting to near a resolution.
Meanwhile, Telecom and the Government’s mishandling of the migrant workers’ visas has led to dozens of migrant workers stranded in New Zealand without jobs, unable to work legally and with no access to the unemployment benefit. The only source of income they have is a $250-400 a week payment they’re receiving from their union. One engineer from the Phillipines is reportedly stuck in New Zealand unable to afford treatment for his wife back home who’s developed a cancerous tumour in her lung.
That’s just disgraceful. Telecom and the New Zealand Government lured these migrant workers out here promising them a better future. They deserve much better than this.
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IT is time that someone takes a legal action against deliberate mistreatment mismanagement and unfair dissmissal in Visionstream Pty Ltd.
The major things is that for example staff Design Visionstream Pty ltd in melbourne Vic east bentleigh George sagistarris Linda schwab Charles Nahm are using taking temporary staff and sending them off. They are not qualified and with insufficient knowledge
someone should and must take them out.
Who is going to call police and take action against this people who are difficult to deal with smoke drink not very nice and who are using other people…and doing what they want to do…unbelievable ..the worst people we have ever worked with are working in visionstream and servicetream pty ltd…companies who dont care about their employees and who take low qualified staff so that they can sack them soon…and they as managers are arrogant uneducated and unfully skilled
Hopefully this people will get jobs somewhere else and requalify themselves for something completely different…