{"id":15723,"date":"2012-11-09T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=15723"},"modified":"2024-03-07T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:02:31","slug":"union-fears-job-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Fears Job ‘Outsourcing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 9, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Electrical Trades Union believes recent comments by Premier Campbell Newman at a business lunch show that the State Government plans to “outsource” electricity workers’ jobs to the private sector.<\/p>\n

The union believes recent redundancies in the electricity industry – including those at Stanwell and Ergon Energy – are just a precursor to “wholesale contracting out” of electricity jobs. <\/p>\n

The union has again called on the State Government to “come clean” about plans for its State-owned assets.<\/p>\n

ETU State Assistant Secretary Keith McKenzie said Premier Newman\u2019s comments at a business lunch showed “a complete disrespect for the men and women who work in the electricity industry as well as the public service in general”.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say he wants to keep the assets but ‘should the people who do all the work be government employees, that\u2019s a different matter totally’ shows clearly that workers in Queensland are not who the LNP care about,” he said. <\/p>\n

“He wants to outsource state electricity jobs. This is SEQEB all over again, he is already sacking over 1800 workers with more to come. This is a disgraceful, ideological attack on hard-working electricity workers – he wants to sell their jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is beyond belief that this government wants to outsource jobs that have been performed professionally and proficiently for years to his mates’ companies whose only motivation is profit. It\u2019s a disgrace.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can show quite clearly that the cost to the consumer will increase exponentially if private companies are used. We already have evidence of wastage and double-dipping by contractors.”<\/p>\n

Footnote:<\/strong> During the 1985 SEQEB dispute, 1100 electricity workers, all members of the ETU employed by the then-South East Queensland Electricity Board, were sacked by the Bjelke-Petersen government and their jobs privatised during a bitter industrial dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Electrical Trades Union believes recent comments by Premier Campbell Newman at a business lunch show that the State Government plans to “outsource” electricity workers’ jobs to the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[32,34],"yoast_head":"\nUnion Fears Job 'Outsourcing' - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Fears Job 'Outsourcing' - southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Electrical Trades Union believes recent comments by Premier Campbell Newman at a business lunch show that the State Government plans to "outsource" electricity workers' jobs to the private sector.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-09T01:23:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-07T04:02:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/\",\"name\":\"Union Fears Job 'Outsourcing' - southburnett.com.au\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-11-09T01:23:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-07T04:02:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/\",\"name\":\"southburnett.com.au\",\"description\":\"Kingaroy and South Burnett News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\",\"name\":\"Anne Miller\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Union Fears Job 'Outsourcing' - southburnett.com.au","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Union Fears Job 'Outsourcing' - southburnett.com.au","og_description":"The Electrical Trades Union believes recent comments by Premier Campbell Newman at a business lunch show that the State Government plans to \"outsource\" electricity workers' jobs to the private sector.","og_url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/","og_site_name":"southburnett.com.au","article_published_time":"2012-11-09T01:23:05+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-03-07T04:02:31+00:00","author":"Anne Miller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Miller","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/","name":"Union Fears Job 'Outsourcing' - southburnett.com.au","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-11-09T01:23:05+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-07T04:02:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/09\/union-fears-job-outsourcing\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/","name":"southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy and South Burnett News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae","name":"Anne Miller","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345075,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions\/345075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}