Shortage of workers to lay cables


	Shortage of workers to lay cables

hotdoge3

3-31-2008 8:49 PM

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hotdoge3 says:

double pay in Australia so we all go.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ccff66;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/473688a0-c471-4cfe-b744-2a56f7624aa4/E832AEC5-E419-4D4B-B807-23E7284482C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721" href="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721" style="font-size: 11px;">tvnz.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/tvnz.co.nz/img/C67A1FEE-4132-4624-91FC-11A5414B805D" alt="Telecommunications cabling" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><DIV id="story_heading">Shortage of workers to lay cables</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><P xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The Electrical and Communications Industry Council is warning of
a shortages of skilled workers to lay a broadband fibre-optic
network and maintain exchanges.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><P>The council is blaming Telecom for not providing enough money to
pay competitive wages.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><P>Spokesman Joe Gallagher says the workers are moving to Australia
because they can double their wages there. He says Telecom is
playing contractors against each other to the point where they just
don't  have the margins to pay staff properly.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><P>Gallagher says by refusing to pay the money for decent wages and
conditions Telecom is draining the country of people needed to keep
telecommunication running.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1667721"><P>Meanwhile, Telecom should know where it stands on its
operational separation by the end of the month.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E832AEC5-E419-4D4B-B807-23E7284482C0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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