Cable / Telecom News

Heated rhetoric marks Telus strike

BURNABY, BC – After a bit of plant damage on the weekend resulted in some customers losing their phone service – with the union getting the blame - the war of words just keeps getting hotter out west. "Telus issued a bulletin today admitting what we've been saying all along," said Telecommunications Workers Union vice-president Peter Massy, in a press release. "After days of innuendo portraying our members as vandals, the company acknowledged that our members had nothing to do with the damage that occurred in Burnaby. "A Telus media spokesperson spun the story to the press that damage done...