US technology giant Hewlett Packard needed to clarify how many Australian jobs would be affected by its worldwide job cuts, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) said today.
Despite the fact that outsourcer EDS is soon to be engulfed by Hewlett-Packard, the employees' union has not heard any rumblings about the merger.
Hewlett-Packard and EDS expected to cut about 7.5 per cent, or 450 workers, out of their combined Australian workforce over the next three years, a spokesperson for EDS' local division said today.
Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around.
Electronic Data Systems today confirmed it would cut 75 Australian staff as part of the integration process associated with Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of the global IT outsourcer.
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
He may not have begun his career in the conventional way, but James Huckerby's commitment to lifelong learning and sheer hard work has enabled him to quickly climb to the top of the Australian tech ladder.
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