Week in Review

Weekly Update: September 13 - September 20

For some time, the Union and TELUS have been working through significant disagreements about the information TELUS would be required to provide to the...

Weekly Update: August 24 - September 2

Since launch, the CTWA has influenced the language of a Parliamentary Bill regulating telecom (C-8), helped move the telecom discussion on Parliament...

Weekly Update: August 10 - August 16

It’s been since late May that I’ve mentioned some of our latest grievance resolves, so I thought I’d share some of the cases from June and July that w...

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14 Jan, 2026

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Weekly Update: January 5-11

VSPs for TBS and ADT: Telus announced another round of Voluntary Severance Packages, offering them to over 500 members nationally within the Telus Business Solutions (TBS) team, and offering them to 8 ADTbyTelus workers.

Weekly Update: January 5-11

16 Dec, 2025

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Weekly Update: December 1 - 12

Document, Document, Document: Our employers collect vast amounts of data on us while we’re working, and yet often the time-accounting systems that they have us use are flawed and systematica

Weekly Update: December 1 - 12

02 Dec, 2025

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Weekly Update: November 24-30

12 Nov, 2025

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Weekly Update: November 1-9

200 Ericsson Field Techs join 1944 – On Thursday, Local 1944 was officially certified by the Canada Industrial Relations Board as the new Union of over 200 Ericsson Field Technicians who work on Rogers Wireless Network infrastructure.

Weekly Update: November 1-9

06 Nov, 2025

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Weekly Update: October 25-31

Strikers’ Agreement Makes Gains – As mentioned in our hotline, on Monday our Rogers Abbotsford technicians, who have been on strike for over 4 months, ratified a 5-year Collective Agreement with sub

Weekly Update: October 25-31

28 Oct, 2025

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Week in Review: Grievance and Arbitration Update

When the collective agreement is violated, or a member is unfairly disciplined or terminated, a Shop Steward can file a grievance. If it’s escalated, the grievance moves to Level 2, and then to Arbitration, handled by Local Union Representatives.

Week in Review: Grievance and Arbitration Update