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 15. The final vote result is expected to be counted and announced on Wednesday, November 16.
Telus will, within 72 hours of a positive ratification, begin the process of bringing all team members back to work as expeditiously as possible.
The release said nothing of any new terms of the labour agreement, which was recently rejected by 50.3% of voting union members. However, thousands crossed the picket line – and thousands didn’t vote at all, perhaps wishing to stay away from union halls during the voting process.
So this time, it’s a mail-in ballot.
