TELUS : New collective agreement between TELUS and the SQET ratified

Rimouski (Quebec) - Members of the Syndicat Québécois des employés de TELUS (SQET - the Quebec union of TELUS employees) have accepted the new collective agreement negotiated between TELUS and the SQET. Nearly 81 per cent of TELUS team members who cast their ballots at ratification meetings voted in favour of the new contract.

The new collective agreement was reached during early negotiations and will cover nearly 800 TELUS team members across Quebec. It will take effect on January 1, 2018 and expire on March 31, 2022.

'The early negotiations and positive outcome enable us to not only continue giving our customers more, but also to secure a solid future for our company while maintaining our strong position in a highly competitive market,' said François Gratton, Executive Vice-President, TELUS and Partner Solutions and President, Business Solutions East and TELUS Québec.

About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is Canada's fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $12.7 billion of annual revenue and 12.6 million subscriber connections, including 8.5 million wireless subscribers, 1.6 million high-speed Internet subscribers, 1.4 million residential network access lines and more than a million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video, and is Canada's largest health care IT provider.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and our retirees have contributed $440 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 6.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Created in 2005 by President and CEO Darren Entwistle, TELUS' twelve Canadian community boards and five International boards have led the company's support of grassroots charities and have contributed more than $54 million in support of over 4,900 local charitable projects, enriching the lives of more than 2 million children and youth. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.

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Jacinthe Beaulieu
TELUS Media Relations
418-318-6102
jacinthe.beaulieu@telus.com