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RRRRRING..Hello Telus? This Is P.G. Council Calling...

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Telus can expect a call from Prince George City Council.

Mmembers of the Telecommunications Workers Union,asked Council to have a chat with Telus.  

Council will oblige by asking Telus to sit down and talk about the success of the call centre here, and encourage expansion.

Even though the TWU has a tentative agreement (ratification to be complete by the end of this month)  there are still concerns  many jobs will be contracted out to other communities, and possibly other countries.

The offer states no employee will be laid off as a direct result of contracting out. The union fears employees may be shuffled to other areas, and then laid off.

Union rep Lorri Ruggles says the union beleives that if they vote to accept the contract, there will be substantial job loses in the lower mainland.  If they reject the  deal, she says there are threats of closing hundreds of offices and loss of thusands  of jobs in B.C.

She points out that ten years ago there were more than 600 phone company workers in Prince George, now there are 300, and that number could be cut in half, pulling another 6 million dollars from the local economy.





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