Mexico, Canadian & US telco unions band together against outsourcing

MEXICO CITY – Canada’s largest telecommunications union has organized a tri-national conference of telecom unions that begins today in Mexico City to work on strategies for reversing what one of its representatives says is “growing job insecurity and poor working conditions faced by telco workers in North America.” Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, is joined by labour leaders from Mexico’s Sindicato telefonistas, and the U.S. Communications Workers of America. “We are up against unprecedented corporate greed that tramples the rights of workers and we intend to fight back on legal and political fronts,” said...