Cable / Telecom News

Bell strikers up the ante

OTTAWA - Striking telecom workers at Bell Subco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Canada, are raising the stakes in their seven-week-old strike, their union said today. "We know that the public is being inconvenienced and now we want them to know that they can claim a rebate on their phone bill for poor service," said Bob Huget Ontario Region vice-president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, which represents the 1,400 strikers, primarily working under the Entourage banner. The Union is taking the rebate campaign directly to the public across Ontario, providing the toll free number for...