We are proud to announce the launch of the National Unemployment Clock, a cross-Canada campaign sponsored by the TWU.

The National Unemployment Clock will be unveiled at Parliament Hill on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. The first stop in the campaign is the TELUS Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. The clock is mounted on a truck and will make its way across Canada to Vancouver with stops in several cities and towns along way.

We need your help in getting the word out about this campaign. The National Unemployment Clock campaign was developed to raise awareness across Canada about the dangers of allowing large international corporations—such as TELUS—to continue to offshore Canadian jobs. This practice is a strong contributor to the unemployment crisis this country is facing. Please add your voice to this campaign and help us to spread the word about it. Unemployment is an issue that faces all of us and we need to come together as Canadians to help keep jobs in Canada.

The campaign's website, www.keepjobsincanada.ca, features an online petition, ways to get involved, contact information for local Members of Parliament, statistics and facts on unemployment in Canada, the ongoing issue of allowing large corporations to offshore jobs, the campaign travel schedule, as well as an interactive "Track the Truck" map following the road show – using GPS technology.

The National Unemployment Clock offers a real-time count of job loss in Canada. It will stop in cities and towns along the way where street teams will hand out information brochures, buttons and bumper stickers, and ask citizens to sign a petition to help keep jobs in Canada, which will be forwarded to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of Labour Rona Ambrose. All upcoming stops will be listed on the www.keepjobsincanada.ca site.

We hope that you will visit the website and sign the online petition. If you live in one of the towns the National Unemployment Clock is set to visit, we hope you will come out and show your support. Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in this message, and in supporting this national public awareness campaign. With each person that puts their voice to this campaign, the shout will become loud enough that our government and the large organizations that are offshoring will have to listen.