The Financial Post reports in its Saturday edition that Bell Canada and the union representing 5,000 of its office workers in Quebec and Ontario have begun negotiating a new collective agreement. A Canadian Press dispatch to the Post says that Unifor, the union representing Bell's clerical employees, says its top priority is to prevent more jobs from being outsourced. Quebec director for Unifor, Renaud Gagne, said that since 2006 the company's work force in Canada declined from 12,000 to 5,000. He says many of those jobs have been outsourced worldwide. "As far as office workers are concerned, it is often in India that someone answers, or elsewhere in the world, replacing our people here in Quebec or Ontario," Mr. Gagne said. Unifor held a rally in Mississauga last week as contract talks began and the union said another demonstration could take place in Montreal. Mr. Gagne says they plan to give talks a few weeks before making that decision. The union also represents technicians, who succeeded during their round of negotiations in obtaining a clause in their agreement preventing Bell from transferring jobs during the contract. Unifor wants the same provision added in the new contract for office workers.