The Commonwealth Public Sector Union will ask Telstra boss Sol Trujillo at a meeting in Sydney today to increase front-line staff numbers and for guarantees that Telstra Country Wide will not be sold off as a separate entity, according to Paul Girdler, lead organiser of the union's communications division. He said it was hard to know where consultants Bain & Co could find more cuts after severe pruning at Telstra in the past few years. Simon Evans
