VANCOUVER – Wireless and wireline operations at Telus Corp. will be combined under one executive roof, the company announced this morning.
The integration (which the company had taken stabs at in the past, sources told cartt.ca) really moved forward quickly with the departure of Telus Mobility president George Cope to Bell Canada a month ago, and “is consistent with Telus’ national growth strategy to provide integrated solutions that differentiate Telus from its competitors,” says the press release.
“The change positions Telus to leverage the ongoing convergence between wireless and wireline technology and Telus’ continual focus on operational efficiency…
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VANCOUVER – Telecommunications Workers Union members voted 64.1% in favor of the latest contract offer from Telus, finally ending the four-month-long strike.
The company and union had a negotiated settlement in October but it was narrowly defeated during the initial in-person vote (50.3% voted against the deal last time around.
In this mail-in ballot, 10,566 members voted (about 1,500 more than last time, 7,258 in favour of the deal.
The terms and conditions of the new collective agreement now become effective as of November 20, 2005. 64.1 per cent of the 10,566 employees who voted during the ratification process…
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VANCOUVER – In lieu of Telus’ Employee Charitable Giving Campaign (ECGC) for 2005, Telus Communications has decided to provide 100% of this year’s funding, $2 million.
Funding is normally provided through the annual campaign, which encourages employees and retirees to make charitable contributions that are matched by Telus dollar for dollar. For 2005, the company will provide all of the funding.
Last year, as part of the 2004 ECGC, Telus employees and retirees donated $1 million, which was matched by the company for a total of $2 million that was disbursed to charities in communities across Canada.
However, because of…
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SCARBOROUGH – Telus Mobility clients in five major urban centres across Canada can now access the Internet, e-mail servers and other data networks at speeds at least six times faster than previous mobile data services.
Telus’ wireless high speed offers customers in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, “broadband data access they’ve become accustomed to on their desktops, but now they can take that speed on the road. With typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and possible speeds of more than 2 megabytes per second, Telus Mobility’s Wireless High Speed network offers clients the speed…
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VANCOUVER – With its labour woes (hopefully) finally behind the company, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle said Thursday the company is moving quickly on two new technologies: its new wireless EVDO network, and its digital television solution, Telus TV.
During a quarterly conference call with financial analysts, Entwistle said beginning next week, Telus will launch its EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) high speed wireless network in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal. The new net will allow wireless data speeds of more than 700 Kbps, about six times faster than its current offering.
And launching this month, is Telus TV, its…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union have reached a memorandum of settlement, it was announced Sunday evening.
The memorandum contains the terms of a negotiated five-year collective agreement that will now be submitted to TWU members for ratification.
The TWU executive council and bargaining committee are recommending its members accept the agreement which, if ratified, is expected to be effective from November 17, 2005 to November 16, 2010.
TWU members are to vote by a mail-in balloting process. Ballots are expected to be mailed out by priority post beginning Monday, November 7 and returned by Tuesday, November…
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BURNABY, B.C – A mere 54 votes came between acceptance and rejection of a new labour agreement between Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union.
The workers voted 4,540 to 4,487 against the deal its bargaining committee agreed to with the western telco on October 9th, the union announced Sunday evening (the press release was entitled “The struggle continues”).
The TWU’s executive council voted earlier to endorse the committee’s recommendation of acceptance of the settlement package, “believing that it was the best deal that could be achieved under the circumstances,” said the union
A bare majority of the workers who…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union announced this evening that they have reached a settlement agreement, ending a strike that began July 21st.
The “memorandum of settlement” contains the terms of the five-year collective agreement that will now be submitted to TWU members for ratification. The TWU is recommending its members accept the agreement. Details of the deal were not released.
“Subject to ratification, this memorandum of settlement concludes the five-year process of merging six separate collective agreements into one,” says the press release.
“The tentative contract covers a national bargaining unit of approximately 14,000 employees, predominantly…
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VANCOUVER – The B.C. Teachers’ Federation has joined CUPE and the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union in disconnecting their Telus service.
"We want to demonstrate our solidarity with the Telus workers who have been struggling for the past five years to achieve a fair collective agreement," said BCTF President Jinny Sims in a release today.
"It’s shameful that thousands of people have been locked out since July and subjected to very heavy-handed tactics since then."
Ed note: The labour dispute here, however, is not a lockout. The Telecommunications Workers Union went on strike after Telus imposed its…
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BURNABY – Small teams of Telus management negotiators and Telecommunications Workers Union members will meet tomorrow to re-start negotiations aimed at ending the two-month-old strike.
Darren Entwistle, president and CEO of Telus and Bruce Bell, president of the TWU made a joint announcement today saying the two sides are getting back together.
Entwistle “will be personally engaged in these discussions,” says a press release.
And, the two sides also agreed to a communications embargo.
“Further communications related to this latest attempt to reach a negotiated settlement will be forthcoming as appropriate,” concluded the release.
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