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Hephaestion
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posted 18 February 2006 08:57 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Of course, it's all due to "lower profits" brought on by "labour disruption"

quote:
Telus Corp. has outsourced 500 of what it calls non-core jobs and hopes to cut another 200 as part of a restructuring after a bitter labour dispute last year that cut into the company's fourth-quarter earnings.

The Vancouver-based telecom company said its fourth-quarter profit tumbled 42 per cent from a year ago as costs related to its lengthy labour disruption offset higher revenues.

[...]

Unionized workers at Telus were off the job for four months last year in a bitter labour dispute with the Telecommunications Workers Union over the outsourcing of work.

[...]

The positions eliminated included janitorial services vehicle maintenance and coin sorting. The company is also closing a call centre in Victoria.

Entwistle said the new contract also allows for an increase in the proportion of part-time and temporary employees at the company. Additionally, 6,000 Telus employees each gave up nine holiday days.


Gee, I wonder if by "labour disruption" and "off the job" and "bitter labour dispute", Canadian Press just figures readers will somehow understand that it was a lockout by management?

Assholes.

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skeptikool
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posted 18 February 2006 03:23 PM      Profile for skeptikool        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hephaestion wrote:

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Gee, I wonder if by "labour disruption" and "off the job" and "bitter labour dispute", Canadian Press just figures readers will somehow understand that it was a lockout by management?

How naive can you get? Surely you're not looking for fairness from the mainstream media, with all that advertising, are you?


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skeptikool
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posted 19 February 2006 02:27 PM      Profile for skeptikool        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm bringing this back because I'm sure there are still many workers out there who do not see the need for unity if there is not to be a "turnabout"
in which Canada joins the Third World nations.

That possibility became all the more alarming when I read, this morning, of supermarket clerks, out in dispute, being replaced by self-serve scanners at the check-outs.


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