BURNABY, B.C. – With a looming deadline, Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union continue to squabble.
"Telus’s plan to bribe our members into accepting their unilaterally-imposed deal is not working," said TWU president Bruce Bell, in the latest of the union’s string of press releases.
As reported here last week, Telus has decided to impose a contract on its workers, who have been working based on its most recent deal, which expired over four years ago.
Telus wants to force a vote of the union membership. The TWU is resisting such a move saying that the contract has not…
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BURNABY, B.C.- One hundred and fifty Telus print shop workers have been suspended for four days after taking an hour off this morning for a “study session”.
Part of the Telecommunications Workers Union’s escalating job action against the telephone company, the union set up the hour-long study session in the Telus print shop this morning.
In response, Telus told the Richmond, B.C. workers who print and document customer bills to stay home for four days.
"As a result of Telus’s actions, the Richmond print and document centre is behind picket lines until TWU members return to work there on…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced this morning that it will unilaterally implement its latest offer of contract settlement with its workers.
The comprehensive collective agreement, tabled with the Telecommunications Workers Union on April 13, 2005 and the addendum tabled on June 14, 2005 will take effect as of July 22, 2005, said the company.
That apparently answers the question of what it thinks of the offer of mediation by Labour Minister Joe Fontana.
"Given the escalation of job action by the union and its continuing refusal to consider placing the offer before its membership for a ratification vote, Telus concluded…
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BURNABY, B.C. – The Telecommunications Workers Union, angry that Telus plans to simply implement its latest contract offer, says it will escalate its job action, but did not say they would strike.
"Yesterday the federal Minister of Labour took a very positive step. He offered to appoint a special mediator with the power to mediate a resolution to the dispute between Telus and the TWU," said union president Bruce Bell in a release.
"But within hours, the company rejected the Minister’s offer and heaped scorn on the idea of entering into a special mediation process," he said. "Then, this…
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CALGARY and VANCOUVER – Telus announced today the extension of its long-standing partnerships with the NHL’s Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks with a pair of five-year, multi-million-dollar sponsorship deals.
Telus also announced a marketing deal with the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen as well.
In addition to advertising at the respective arenas (The Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary and GM Place in Vancouver) Telus will be the teams’ exclusive telecommunications sponsor, will support several charitable causes driven by the hockey teams and will work with the teams to use telecommunications technology to bring the game to fans in innovative ways…
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VANCOUVER – The Supreme Court of Canada last week rejected Telus’s bid to appeal the decision that gave the Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) scope over new employees acquired from the company’s $6 billion purchase of Clearnet in 2000.
"We’re extremely pleased about this decision," said Bruce Bell, the president of Telecommunications Workers Union, in a release. "Telus has been in denial for years that the Clearnet employees belong in the TWU and now they’ve exhausted their legal angles. They did everything they could to avoid giving us contact information for these employees, who are now part of Telus Mobility,…
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BURNABY, B.C. – The Telecommunications Workers Union has added another step to its battle with Telus.
“In response to the company’s refusal to bargain, the union is upping the ante,” says the press release. Two weeks ago, as reported by www.cartt.ca, TWU initiated an overtime ban as well as a ban on relieving management. Effective today, Wednesday, June 29, it is instructing those of its members who take their company vehicles home after work to return them to Telus by the end of their shift on Thursday, June 30th.
Union president Bruce Bell explained the reasons for its concern:…
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BURNABY, B.C. – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union met briefly today for further negotiations, but union president Bruce Bell expressed disappointment at the results of the meeting in a press release.
"We put a detailed counter-proposal on the table last week to get Telus to engage in substantive negotiations," Bell said. "Despite that, Telus walked away from the bargaining table."
"It was evident they were only interested in forcing us to put their offer to our members for a vote," he continued. "The union is ready and willing to bargain with Telus. But the company must address our…
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VANCOUVER – Telus today announced the re-naming of a building to honor its chairman Brian Canfield.
Currently the chair of the company’s board of directors, Canfield joined BC Tel as an apprentice installer in 1956 and progressed through the ranks before becoming president and COO in 1989. In 1990, he became president and CEO and in 1993 he was chairman and CEO.
Following his retirement in 1997, Canfield retained the position of chairman of BC Tel and following the merger with Alberta’s Telus, he became chairman of the newly formed Telus Corporation. Canfield also served as interim president and…
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VANCOUVER – It took two days for Telus to reject the latest Telecommunications Workers Union’s (TWU) proposal, after it took the union two months to respond to the last Telus offer.
Telus said this afternoon the TWU’s proposal is “entirely devoid of any meaningful movement toward a resolution of this matter and even widens the gap in a number of key areas,” says the Telus press release.
The company went on to say that, “for four and a half years, the TWU has refused to accept what is obvious to Telus, its employees, its customers and its shareholders: the…
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