German Telekom employees on warning strike on Monday
In the current wage dispute, ver.di is once again calling for strikes. Telekom's private customer division is now also to go on strike.
The headquarters of Telekom AG in Bonn.
(Bild: Ittermann/Deutsche Telekom)
Following the first warning strikes in recent days, Deutsche Telekom employees are to strike again on Monday, April 29, 2024. The trade union ver.di, which is currently in a collective bargaining dispute with the company, has called for this. According to employee representatives, around 12,500 Telekom employees took part in warning strikes last Tuesday.
For the first time, employees of Deutsche Telekom Privatkunden-Vertrieb GmbH, Deutsche Telekom Services Europe SE and T-Systems International GmbH have also been called to take part in warning strikes next Monday, which are to last an entire shift. The union had already assumed that the previous work stoppages would lead to restrictions in service and network expansion. These could well be extended in the new action. Parallel rallies are planned in the cities of Berlin, Dortmund, Hamburg, Mainz, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, as well as a meeting on the summit of the Brocken mountain in Saxony-Anhalt.
Ver.di wants to put pressure on Telekom with the continued work stoppages and describes their offers as "unspecific and insufficient". It is not known what the company has already promised. The union is demanding a general pay rise of twelve percent for the approximately 70,000 employees, but at least 400 euros. Apprentices and dual students should receive 185 euros more per month. Another demand is that the new collective agreement should only run for 12 months. Traditionally, companies push for longer periods of validity, which is a subject of negotiation in collective bargaining disputes alongside pay and other issues.
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