"The union and our members face a situation where the work being done by Communications Technicians who provision and maintain the network is going away. Technology is being retired. The legacy systems that are in place today will be retired as quickly as possible, example all 4ESS machines will be retired by 2006. Almost all of the company's investment is going toward IP based technology. Unfortunately, that work is mainly non-Union and our members had no access to either those jobs or that training." Download complete explanation from C&T Vice-President Ralph Maly and also a copy of the "NEW ARTICLE 43" in PDF format.