GATINEAU – Full marks for decision speed on this one as Telus today received its broadcast distribution undertaking license.
The hearing on the license was on June 6th.
The license is for the following regions: Rimouski, Saint-Georges, Sept-Îles, Baie-Comeau, Gaspé, Montmagny and Sainte-Marie, and their surrounding areas – the same wired coverage regions of the company’s regional telephone division, Telus Quebec (once known as Quebectel).
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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…
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VANCOUVER – Late on Friday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia granted an injunction sought by Telus against the Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) over the union’s picketing practices.
The injunction is to ensure safe access to the company’s locations and its customers’ locations in British Columbia, says Telus
The injunction prevents TWU union members from: * Picketing at, on or near Telus’ premises or customers’ premises in a manner that blocks, obstructs or impedes access to and from the premises. * Impeding, blockading or obstructing persons adjacent to or in the vicinity of all Telus locations and customer locations…
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VANCOUVER – Responding to its employees’ walkout, Telus today confirmed that it will implement certain terms and conditions of its comprehensive offer of settlement with its unionized workers on July 22.
"Our offer recognizes the contributions of our team members and effectively addresses the needs of Telus, our customers and our shareholders," said Darren Entwistle, Telus president and CEO. "It would make Telus’ unionized team members among the best paid telecommunications professionals in Canada, provide employment security and give Telus the flexibility it needs to compete on an even playing field with its competitors."
Telus has implemented a comprehensive…
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VANCOUVER – Telecommunications Workers Union president Bruce Bell told CKNW radio host Bill Good yesterday that Telus employees will strike on Friday.
That’s the date Telus said it would unilaterally impose its latest, last, contract offer on its workers, whether their union approves or not.
After four and a half long years without a contract (and without a raise for employees) Telus is fed up, vice-president of corporate affairs Drew McArthur told www.cartt.ca Wednesday.
The union has simply refused to budge, not even putting Telus’ contract offer to a vote among its members. Telus first tabled the offer in…
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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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