Stephanie March

Updated February 17, 2012.

Problem is that the government has not the money to pay for jobs except for taxpayers' money and that is not made of elastic nor grows on trees.

With more and more parasites crowding into the country and these women bearing kids for their four-wheel drives and adding our own populating kids for the Welfare scrapheap what hope is there for the future.

The Communication Workers Union is concerned more jobs will be lost as Telstra moves operations overseas.   

About 150 Telstra workers and their supporters held a rally in Melbourne to protest against jobs being lost to nations with cheaper labour costs.

Telstra is moving 255 IT jobs to India, and the union believes 90 more will go soon.   

Communication union national president, Len Cooper, says Telstra's handling of offshoring is causing great bitterness.

"The worst part of it is they are asking the workers to train the Indian workers who are going to facilitate taking their jobs," he said.

Mr Cooper wants a private members bill introduced to Federal Parliament to protect Australian jobs.   

He says the bill should penalise companies that send jobs offshore and to give tax breaks to those that do not.

"Quite clearly there is a strategy being used by all these companies to take advantage of the cheap, non-unionised labour in other countries in order to cut their wages bill and increase their bottom line," he said.   

A Telstra worker, who did not want to be named, has been with the company for 16 years and says he has been told his job will be sent offshore by June next year.   

"It's shocking you know, you have your family, your home loan, the career path you've chosen to develop - to have it taken from you is a bit of a shock," he said.

"My concern is the future as well, where does it all lead to, all these jobs going off shore? Once it starts where does it stop?"

"If the companies are just making purely economic decisions based on shareholder dividends and money then the country will have no work at all because of course we can't compete with India when someone over there is being paid a pittance," he said.