Deutsche Telekom
Union considers new offer in Deutsche Telekom strike
German union Ver.di are considering a revised offer from the company in the ongoing dispute with Deutsche Telekom.
The company plans a one-time payment for each worker in 2011 that may be more than 1,000 euros ($1,350), if financial and customer-service goals are met in 2010, Thomas Sattelberger, the board member in charge of personnel, told a press briefing in Bonn today. The total cost would be in the range of "two-digit'' million euros, he said.
Deutsche Telekom determined to go ahead with job cuts
Deutsche Telekom AG, whose plan to move 50,000 service workers in Germany to jobs with lower pay sparked the company's biggest strike in a decade, will stick to its schedule to complete the transfer by July 1.
Taken from Bloomberg.com
Deutsche Telekom strike continues despite government intervention
Deutsche Telekom AG employees who will enter the second week of a full-blown strike Monday are still highly motivated to continue their industrial action to protest the company's plans to outsource 50,000 jobs.
'The employees are still very angry about the company's plans for them,' Ver.di trade union strike leader Ado Wilhelm said in an interview with German news agency DPA.
'The people are highly motivated and are not allowing themselves to be cowed into not participating (in the strikes),' he added.
Disruption in first week of Deutsche Telekom strike
Labor union ver.di says that operations at Deutschen Telekom have been severely hampered after one week of strike.
Ado Wilhelm, who is organizing the strike on behalf of ver.di, told heise online that service had been detrimentally affected. The protest is a reaction to the group's plans to outsource some 50,000 employees in the new T- Service division. Today, the labor union says that 7000 people went on strike across Germany. The protests are to continue through the weekend.
Over 10,000 Deutsche Telekom workers walk off the job
More than 10,000 Deutsche Telekom employees refused to turn up for work last Friday to protest the company's plans to outsource 50,000 jobs.
The strikes have also spread to a team wiring up services for officials and the media at the G8 summit next month on the Baltic coast.
