Germany: Deutsche Telekom and Ver.di call on a mediator to clear up their payroll differences

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the fourth round of wage negotiations, the Deutsche Telekom phone company, and the Ver.di services union decided, on February 28, 2009, to launch a conciliation procedure and asked Henning Voscherau, the former president-minister of the city-state of Hamburg, to take the role of mediator. The social-democrat has until March 13th to come up with a compromise. Until then, no strike is authorized. (Ref. 090246)

According to the services union, more than 35.000 employees of the company have part

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