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News and articles about work, policy and struggles in the communications sector, from telecoms to postal and delivery services around the world.
South African Telekom workers begin three-day strike
Around 14,000 Telkom employees will be going on strike from today (August 1st) over an unresolved wage dispute with management.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the South African Communications Union (Sacu) have received a certificate of non-resolution from the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). The certificate allows union members working at Telkom to go on strike from Friday to Tuesday. This amounts to three days where more than half the company’s employees will be on strike.
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.
Tahiti: Strikes underway with more to come
Employees at Tikiphone, the polynesian mobile phone provider went on indefinite strike last Tuesday.
The strike action is in support of a claim by workers for increased salaries and for their benefits to be brought into line with those of other workers at the Officeof post and telecommunications (OPT). An inter-union grouping of CSIP, CSTP/FO, Otahi, A Tia I Mua called the strike and 60% of workers are observing it.Tikiphone shops are either closed or picketed.
Strikes in Poland, early 2005
Information about various workers' struggles in and around Poland, including strikes by seamen, railworkers, car and telecoms workers in 2005.
Here is an update on recent struggles in and around Poland. More information in English can be found on a website run by the base-unionist ‘workers’ initiative’ from Poland: http://paspartoo.w.interia.pl/index.htm
Polish seamen on strike for eleven days in the docklands of Travemünde/Germany
5,000 jobs to go at NTL
Cable company NTL will tomorrow announce a jobs cull, axing almost a third of its British workforce as it pushes for £250m in annual cost savings from its £3.4bn merger with rival Telewest.
Around 5,000 jobs are expected to go from the combined company's workforce of 17,000 over the next few years.
"It’s the little grains of sand which jam the machine"
A tract distributed in front of France Telecom in Bercy, Paris agitating for a wildcat general strike against the CPE.
Handed out on Tuesday 27 March at midday, it was translated for libcom.org:
It would only take a little push...
A little push to change the relations of force. It’s the little grains of sand which jam the machine.
