TELE-MOBILE COMPANY seeks stay and judicial review of Canada Industrial Relations Board's Decision no. 1088

Scarborough, Ontario, June 23, 2004 - TELE-MOBILE COMPANY, which operates a national wireless business under the TELUS Mobility trade name, today filed motions to the Federal Court of Appeal for a stay and a judicial review of Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) Decision no. 1088.

In its summary decision issued May 21, the CIRB declared that national wireless carrier TELUS Mobility and TELUS Communications Inc. (TCI), a wireline business, are a single employer for labour relations purposes, that TELUS Mobility and TCI workers should be represented by a single Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) bargaining unit, and that approximately 2,000 TELUS Mobility team members should be "swept in" to the TWU bargaining unit without a representation vote.

TELUS Mobility is seeking an order from the Court staying the Decision on an expedited basis, and a judicial review of the Decision declaring it invalid and contrary to subsections 2(b) and 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to Section 8 of the Canada Labour Code. In particular, the Decision forces non-unionized employees to join a union without a chance to express their wishes through a representation vote.

Decision Background
In March 2001, the TWU filed an application with the CIRB that contended Clearnet and QuébecTel Mobilité (QTM) were fully integrated into TELUS and its TCI wireline operations after TELUS Corporation's acquisition of the two companies in 2000, and that TCI and TELE-MOBILE COMPANY are a single employer for labour relations purposes. TELE-MOBILE COMPANY's position was that, as a national wireless company, TELUS Mobility operates distinctly and separately from TCI.

TELE-MOBILE COMPANY is comprised of all of the wireless assets and employees of TELUS' former regional wireless operations in Western Canada, the former Clearnet Communications Inc. and the former QTM. Based in Scarborough, Ontario, the new company was created following TELUS' acquisitions of Clearnet and QTM in 2000 to operate as a unified, national wireless competitor.

About TELUS Mobility
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is Canada's second largest telecommunications company with more than Cdn$7 billion of annual revenue, more than 4.8 million network access lines and more than 3.5 million wireless subscribers. The company provides subscribers across Canada with a full range of telecommunications products and services utilizing next-generation Internet-based technologies, including data and voice services through TELUS Communications Inc. and wireless services through TELUS Mobility.

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