TSTT rewrite

THE EDITOR: Having cut about 500 lower-level employees and 80 management executives, TSTT is apparently now set to cut a hundred or so people at management level. The Communications Workers Union has long argued that TSTT was top heavy but, since trade unionists always say that, I was never sure if this was so. However, the fact that TSTT rid itself of so many people at management level suggests, in this case, the union was correct.

Ironically though, the leaner TSTT which we may see at the end of this exercise may still have more upper than lower-level employees, proportionally speaking. After all, the main factor behind these job cuts is technology, which advances faster in telecommunications than in almost any other field. What this means is that, in order to stay viable, TSTT will need more people who are experts in both technology and management. Even so, with so many managers going home, the union can hardly continue to argue that the company only retrenched workers as a union-busting exercise, rather than a necessary cost-cutting.

With the economy still struggling, the writing is no longer even on the wall – it’s on the tablet.

Rachel Robinson, Maraval