Several senior members of New Zealand's Labour opposition party have published an extraordinary public letter to Telecom New Zealand, asking the telco to re-examine the terms of a controversial contract that is causing widespread unionised industrial action.
Industrial action by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) in New Zealand has seen over a hundred engineers on Auckland's North Shore walk out of their jobs in a lightning strike.
Telecom New Zealand faced union protests in Auckland today in relation to its re-shuffle of engineering contractors.
Telstra has announced a cull in its access network supplier contracts, trimming 100 contracts and 100 vendors to three -- Service Stream, Silcar and Visionstream -- with a view to saving AU$140 million over two years.
Telstra is forging ahead with work on the core of its new AU$10 billion IP MPLS network, with networking equipment having been delivered and a sub-contractor brought on board to assist.
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