The German telephone company, Deutsche Telekom, is about to experience its first hard strike since it became private in 1995. After months of conflict on the transfer of 50,000 employees into a new subsidiary called T-Service (see our dispatches n°70190 and 70175) the German services union Ver.di decided, on May 4, to consult employees on the launching of an unlimited strike ("Urabstimmung") (Ref. 070400)
As soon as this coming Monday – May 7 – employees from the telecom in Germany will thus be invited to vote for or against the strike. The vote will be spread on a three-day period. “Telekom’s management stubbornly ignored all the signal Ver.di sent in order to find a solution. Now, Telekom’s employees are called upon to give their opinion on how to deal with the management’s conflict,” declared Lothar Schröder, member of Ver.di’s executive board, after a meeting on May 4 of the commission in ch
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