Contract negotiations begin for 5,000 Bell clerical employees in Ontario, Quebec
MONTREAL — Bell Canada and the union representing 5,000 of its office workers in Quebec and Ontario have begun negotiating a new collective agreement.
Unifor, the union representing Bell’s clerical employees, says its number one priority is to prevent more jobs from being outsourced to foreign countries.
Quebec director for Unifor, Renaud Gagne, said since 2006 the company’s workforce in Canada declined from 12,000 to 5,000.
He says many of those jobs have been outsourced worldwide.