MONTREAL - An overwhelming majority of members of the Canadian Telecommunications Employees Association (CTEA) have approved the merger agreement with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP). Eighty-seven percent of the CTEA's 12,000 members voted for the merger in a phone ballot conducted over the last two weeks. The agreement between the two unions was reached at the end of September. "We are naturally very happy about the result. It shows even more that this merger is a step in the right direction," said Brenda Knight, CTEA's president, in a release. Over the next months, the two organizations...
