Tech Mahindra has shut down communication with Vodafone employees in order to force them to sign inferior and exploitative employment agreements by 5pm tonight and waive their right to redundancy with Vodafone.
Unite union represents nine Vodafone employees who are being pressured into signing agreements with Indian company Tech Mahindra, after their jobs were outsourced by Vodafone at the end of April. The employees had entered into negotiations with Tech Mahindra, but now communication has been shut down by the tech giant.
“On Tuesday Tech Mahindra agreed to look at our proposed changes to their employment agreements,” said Unite Union National Secretary Gerard Hehir. “Particularly around areas we considered to be substantially inferior to Vodafone’s or where there were concerns that the conditions were unlawful and exploitative.
“We sent through the proposed changes on Wednesday and haven’t heard back, despite follow up emails. We believe Tech Mahindra may have deliberately stopped engaging so that employees will feel pressured into signing the contracts by 5pm tonight – the deadline that Tech Mahindra has imposed despite employment not beginning until 20th May.
“Obviously, this is a blatant and serious breach of good faith.
“While Tech Mahindra’s actions mean that employees could take legal action, the question is why they should be put in the position of an exhaustive legal battle in the first place?
“Vodafone needs to take responsibility. They chose to outsource their operations and could have simply made a condition of that arrangement that employees would receive the same terms and conditions. Instead, they are washing their hands of their employees and refusing to pay redundancy entitlements if the employees don’t accept the inferior offers with Tech Mahindra.
“We are calling on Vodafone and Tech Mahindra to show some corporate responsibility and act in good faith towards its employees,” said Gerard Hehir
Here’s an idea? Kick the T Mahindra fuckers out of AO/NZ and lets build a state run cell/data service for ourselves? Like NZ Postal Services were prior to that being flogged off. Eventually, of course, gutting got her sticky, greedy little mitts on it.
From Wikipedia:
“The Postal Services Act 1987 split the then New Zealand Post Office into New Zealand Post Limited (trading as NZPost), Telecom New Zealand Limited (trading as Telecom) and Post Office Bank Limited (trading as PostBank, sold to ANZ in 1989) and all three industries progressively deregulated. The selling price of Telecom was considered by some to be extremely low, given that Telecom had a monopoly of all phone lines in New Zealand at the time.[6] There has been debate as to whether privatisation was in the best interests of the country’s telecommunications infrastructure, although others consider that the capital requirements to modernise the network were better provided by private enterprise than the government.”
“…although others consider that the capital requirements to modernise the network were better provided by private enterprise than the government…”
Yeah? Well # A. They were lying and #B look how that’s worked out for us across the board?
Fuck the Indian Mega Uber Super Duper Giant Tech Mahindra with a Double Whoop follow-through.
Vodafone employees should be put on a living wage until our government sorts this out.
Telecom had a ‘monopoly’ on all phone lines in NZ because We! The People! Paid for it and built it and OWNED it for us all.
Beware the neo liberal weasel words.
Fuck off Vodafone and goodbye and good riddance to Tech Mahindra, thanks for the fishes and close the door on your way out to fucking off too!
national destroyed one of our best performing companies NZ Posts why would you do this
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