About the Campaign
About 150 call centre employees at TELUS are facing a critical moment in their lives. TELUS is closing offices in Ontario and requiring these employees to attend an office in Montreal three times per week, otherwise they must resign and take a severance package. This forces our members to make an impossible choice between their community, their friends, their families, and their jobs.
TELUS can easily afford to provide office space for their employees in Ontario, it just doesn’t want to.
Further, about 1,000 call centre employees in total across the country, who have been working from home since at least 2020, have been told they now need to report to the office three times per week. This has occurred with no indication during these years that work-from-home was being reviewed for these jobs or was ever likely to be discontinued.
To be clear, these call centre jobs can be performed properly from anywhere – and they have been, for years.
Our members are being pushed back into office roles unnecessarily, disrupting their lives and threatening their livelihoods. This is an unacceptable move that disregards the well-being and stability of hard-working Canadians.
We are calling on the Government of Canada to stand up for Canadian workers!
By filling out your name and postal code here, you are telling your representatives in Ottawa that it is time to stand up for our members, our families, our communities and our jobs!
An email will be sent on your behalf to make your voice heard by your Member of Parliament, and the leadership in Ottawa, including:
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
• Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
• Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre
• Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan
• Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge
• Minister of Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne
It’s time to tell the Canadian Government to protect our jobs and our communities!
Your voice can make a difference. Sign up now to send your message to Ottawa and demand that they advocate for the rights and stability of Canadian workers. Together, we can push for the protection of our jobs, our communities, and our future.
Thank you for your solidarity and support.