CEO Needs to come clean on job losses and corporate waste
The CEPU was contacted by hundreds of members today following an email sent from the company to employees after work yesterday. Workers are concerned TasWater intends to proceed with the termination of 94 workers next week without having followed the legal processes contained in their enterprise agreement.
CEPU State Secretary Trevor Gauld said the level of anger in the company was building and so far the company had refused to meet with CEPU representatives or provide the information it is required to by law.
“Last week the company guaranteed employees they would be provided information and allowed to meet with Union representatives to help them respond to the company’s proposal.” Mr Gauld said “but when they ask for that information and for those meetings the company threatens them with legal proceedings”.
“We are doing our best to support members but we are concerned the company’s actions are forcing people to take matters into their own hands. We have made repeated requests to the CEO Mike Brewster to meet and discuss these issues but our requests are simply ignored.”
A meeting with workers at TasWater’s Moonah Depot today revealed more concerns that waste at the top was being ignored while frontline jobs and services are being cut.
“It was raised with us today by employees that the manager responsible for these cuts lives in Singapore and is flying back and forth and staying in a flash residence in Battery Point when in Hobart. I think the community rightly should know who is paying for all of this. We have also been told other managers have been living in the Old Woolstore for up to 2 years and commuting from Sydney.”
“It beggars belief that frontline workers are being told to face job cuts in the face of such blatant waste.”
Trevor Gauld – CEPU State Secretary
