Don’t sell us, say JT staff

Thursday 5th April 2007, 12:00AM BST.

A PUBLIC campaign to stop the sale of Jersey Telecom has been launched by the union that represents virtually all of the company’s 400 staff.

A petition has been launched by the Amicus union and Islanders will be urged to lobby States Members to press them to reject the sale of the States-owned utility company when the matter is debated in the autumn. Treasury Minister Terry Le Sueur has proposed the business be sold off as a single entity either to a trade buyer or to a group of shareholders. National officials from the union Amicus unveiled the campaign at a meeting attended by about 100 Jersey Telecom (JT) workers in the Post Horn pub last night.

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