BURNABY B.C. – Telus is suing the Telecommunication Workers Union (TWU) for allegedly infringing on its copyrighted trademark “the future is friendly”; and has fired 14 staffers in B.C. and Alberta for going against Telus’ code of conduct.
Drew McArthur, Telus vice-president of corporate services says recent TWU radio advertisements malign their copyrighted trademark: the future is friendly.
The ads, which begin as an on the spot report, “Live on the line,” call upon the public to “Give Telus a wake up call” by canceling telephone calling features (such as call waiting, call display, etc…). Ads include four Telus…
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MAPLE, Ont. – Telus announced today a $100,000 donation to the Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Centre, Canada’s largest and only teaching hospital for paediatric rehabilitation.
Veteran Canadian Tour golfers joined NHL greats and Telus business customers from across Ontario in support of children as the donation was made today at the 2005 TELUS President’s Invitational Golf Tournament, which brings the telecommunication company’s top-tier customers together to thank them for their loyalty and business.
The funds will go to Bloorview’s Electronic Aids to Daily Living (EADL) program, which teams up clinical therapists with specialized engineers who craft and adapt devices that…
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BURNABY, B.C. – The B.C. division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is cutting Telus out of its life.
The largest union in the province, with 70,000 members, has begun negotiations with other telecommunications providers to replace the division office’s land line, Internet and mobile phone services.
The move is a direct response to the strike at the telco by the Telecommunication Workers Union (TWU). It makes CUPE the first union in Canada to launch a full-scale boycott of Telus products.
“We can no longer have ourselves in a position where we as a union are being serviced…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Friday that Darren Entwistle, the company’s president and CEO, has exercised his vested Telus share options, using the entirety of the net after tax gain to increase his Telus share ownership by 15,600 common shares and 110,711 non-voting shares.
Including his investment in January 2005 of 76,333 non-voting shares, Mr. Entwistle now owns 39,131 common shares and 283,947 non-voting shares for a combined total of 323,078 Telus shares.
During the last six years Entwistle “has consistently accumulated Telus shares, by: investing after tax net gains from exercising share options; reinvesting variable pay; investing from personal…
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BURNABY, B.C. – The Telecommunications Workers Union says that business analyst Michael Levy, while on Bill Good’s CKNW radio program yesterday, told listeners that Telus CEO Darren Entwistle is out to break the union.
According to a TWU press release, Levy said senior Telus managers have contacted him to express their willingness to enter into non-binding arbitration with the union, and also that "the big guy on top" has his sight on breaking the union.
"This confirms what we already knew. There is one insurmountable barrier to settlement – the intractable position of Telus CEO Darren Entwistle,” said TWU…
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VANCOUVER – An audit done August 31st for Telus by accounting firm Ernst & Young shows that the majority of the company’s unionized workers are on the job, despite the strike called by the Telecommunications Workers Union.
The E&Y procedures show that 2,880 Alberta based unionized employees were active on the Telus payroll system, which represented 52.6% of Alberta bargaining unit employees. This is up from August 16, 2005, where 2,715 Alberta based unionized employees were active, or 48.8% of the Alberta bargaining unit employees.
It also shows that the longer a labour dispute drags on, the higher the…
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THIS IS A BIG JOB. No wonder Rogers Communications Group’s president and COO Nadir Mohamed doesn’t want to talk about succession. He’s got lots on his plate to worry about now, rather than what his next job might be.
Besides, last week’s National Post Business article beat that story to death (and then some) last week.
What we wanted to know is where the company’s priorities lay. What’s job one for him rightnow? How is he going to bring together two disparate groups (cable and wireless, together a $5 billion business), two completely different technological platforms, into a cohesive,…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has turned down a request from a non-profit group in British Columbia to get relief from TELUS Communications Inc. with its phone rates.
The Royal Canadian Air Cadets 828 Hurricane Squadron wanted the telco to allow qualifying non-profit organizations to have two individual phone lines at residential rates instead of business rates. TELUS does so in Alberta, but its General Tariff for B.C. does not.
The cadets wanted TELUS to define customers given rate relief to include churches, youth groups, veterans’ associations, associations for the elderly or infirm, and community centres. It argued that residential…
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TORONTO – Rogers and Bell may have had the press releases out first this year, but Telus Mobility is the first to market with mobile TV – video to cell phones.
Telus Mobility today launched Telus mobile TV, offering clients across Canada real-time access to live television programming including news, weather and shopping channels on their wireless phones.
Both Rogers and Bell made announcements earlier this year that the service was coming soon (those releases anticipated the service would be in the market by now from both companies), powered by MobiTV, but both companies say technical issues has…
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