The National Unemployment Clock made an appearance at the TELUS Annual General Meeting this morning, held at the National Gallery in Ottawa. The team was handing out brochures and discussing the issue of offshoring Canadian jobs and the subsequent unemployment rate caused by corporations seeking more profitable employment practices in developing countries. Even a handful of TELUS employees attending the AGM signed our petition to change the legislation allowing this to happen.
Only two days into our month-long campaign, our petition already has close to 600 signatures and we are turning heads and raising awareness on every street we drive down. Look for the clock tomorrow on the corners of Rue Saint-Catherine & Rue Saint-Denis, downtown Montreal, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. Come down and show your support, sign our petition, and tell us how the current unemployment crisis is affecting you.
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It is utter stupidity to expoert jobs when we have so many unemployed in Canada
Simple economics is “people work people buy hence people don’t work people cannot contribute to the social economic fabric of this country ”. If TELUS’s goal is long term, with a short sightedness to continue the move of Canadian jobs overseas, who will buy TELUS products or any other service? Canadian’s will have the fun taken out of window shopping.
Telus has comercials to advise us the future is friendly. I would like to know how many employees that were let go from Telus will still keep their same services. As the future is no longer friendly… I would have to say… Sales is done mainly by positive word of mouth and how the company treats you as a customer. They should have treated their employees and their customers better. A loss of jobs results to a larger amount of cancelled services. Shares will drop, downgrades of services or even cancellation. People have been able to survive in the past without all these extra features and packages. We can do it again. Happy employees means successful business.
This is Karma.