Sensis workers rally over job cuts

DOZENS of Sensis workers have marched in Melbourne to protest the outsourcing of their jobs.

Almost 100 workers and union members marched from the Sensis office to Telstra headquarters in the CBD shouting slogans and carrying signs reading "It's how we disconnect".

Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union print division secretary Lorraine Cassin said workers wanted Sensis boss John Allan to know they did not accept the outsourcing decision.

"These are the faces of those people behind those jobs," Ms Cassin told the crowd on Thursday.

"We're not to going to back down. We're going to have this fight."

Sensis, the division of Telstra which publishes the Yellow and White Pages, is cutting almost 700 jobs from its 3500-strong staff and creating 50 new roles as it accelerates the transition from print to digital businesses.

About 390 jobs will be axed from backroom and sales roles, with most expected to be sent overseas to call centres in the Philippines or India.

Sensis worker Paul Smalley, 32, said he was losing sleep over the uncertainty.

"I'm just too distraught to even talk. Very shocked. Very stressed and still am today," he told AAP.

"They're stringing us along until November. They're not giving us an option to leave early."

The workers on their lunchbreak concluded the protest by placing yellow paper planes inside the Telstra building.

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