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Strike Threat To BT Wireless Sell-off
News BT has been threatened with strike action that would cripple its operations unless it agrees to suspend the demerger of its mobile division. The CWU represents around 80,000 BT workers, and Jeannie Drake, general secretary of the CWU, warned on...
[August 31, 2001, 13:39]
Strike King Reels In A Whopper With MAS 200
White Papers In 1992, Strike King decided it was time to modernize its business systems. By 1997, Strike King had doubled in size and foresaw more growth. They dumped an old XENIX-based package and installed MAS 90 with Payroll capabilities, gradually adding...
[October 11, 2003, 0:00]
Patent Inspectors Strike Over Quality Fears
News Employees at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich and Berlin held a strike on Tuesday against proposed changes to the patent assessment process, which they claim will reduce patent quality. Wolfgang Manntz, the chair of the Berlin branch of...
[May 10, 2006, 16:40]
BT Faces Strike Over Back-office Outsourcing
News British Telecommunications could face a strike action if it does not call off plans to outsource some back-office processes to an Indian joint-venture partner, according to reports. This union is opposed to BT's plans to outsource work outside the...
[July 12, 2001, 13:16]
French To Strike Over HP Job Cuts?
News After HP's recent announcement that it will be laying off 1,240 staff in France, a number of trade unions are calling for the company's entire workforce in the country to strike on 16 September. The trade unions said they want to express their...
[September 15, 2005, 16:30]
Strike Fears Over BT Outsourcing Plan
Talkback A strike will ultimately kill Britain's flagship internet service provider. I fear that BT is taking the road which will eventually lead to its demise througha take over bid by another big player. There is no need for this.
[January 11, 2004, 12:55]
EBay Sellers Strike Planned
News A group of eBay traders has called a one-day strike for Tuesday 15 August claiming that the auction site has made listings less visible and raised fees for bulk sellers. It's not clear how many shops will take part in Tuesday's strike, but a...
[August 14, 2006, 13:20]
Firemen Could Strike Over IT Project
News The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is threatening strike action over a £1bn government project to replace 46 local fire service operations rooms with nine new high-tech regional control centres. The nine regional centres are scheduled to be up and...
[May 17, 2005, 9:10]
Strike Fears Over BT Outsourcing Plan
News If the CWU calls for strike action, other BT businesses could be affected, including customer service. BT may be hit by industrial action over a plan to shift directory enquiries jobs to India. The Communication Workers' Union said that 700 workers...
[February 19, 2003, 15:45]
IT Strike Relations Worsen In Swansea
News Swansea Council's five-week IT strike is becoming increasingly bitter, with recriminations mounting as local authority chiefs fear an escalation of the industrial action. You can't have 100 IT workers on strike for four weeks and have a hidden agenda.
[September 13, 2004, 12:45]
BT Faces Strike Action
News BT is accused of being "a big brother institution" as workers in BT call centres vote overwhelmingly for strike action Monday. It will be the first national strike BT has faced for 13 years. It is the latest blow for the telco, following a barrage...
[November 15, 1999, 12:21]
AOL UK Redundancies Could Prompt Strike
News Journalists working at AOL UK may strike following the announcement of a wave of redundancies at the company. Following a ballot of around 40 employees, who are members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), strike action is now on the cards...
[December 15, 2006, 11:31]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
News Symbiot, a Texas-based security firm, is preparing to launch a corporate defence system at the end of March that can fight back against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and hacker attacks by launching a counter-strike.
[March 10, 2004, 14:15]
Stochastic Implied Trees: Arbitrage Pricing With Stochastic Term And Strike Structure Of Volatility
White Papers In this paper we present an arbitrage pricing framework for valuing and hedging contingent equity index claims in the presence of a stochastic term and strike structure of volatility. Starting from an initial set of index options prices and their...
[October 28, 2003, 23:00]
Strike To Cripple Swansea's Public Services
News Over 100 IT staff have been on strike since August over fears about job security if the £100m Service@Swansea IT modernisation project is awarded to a private sector IT company. The council has largely managed to keep its main systems up and...
[October 7, 2004, 11:55]
Fujitsu Workers To Strike This Week
News A strike at Fujitsu Services's offices in Central Park, Manchester, will resume on Thursday after last-minute talks between union representatives and the company on Tuesday night failed to result in an agreement.
[January 10, 2007, 13:44]
Fujitsu Staff To Strike Again
News Staff at Fujitsu Services will go on strike again this week, after the collapse of arbitration talks aimed at ending a long-running dispute between members of the Amicus trade union and management. At a meeting on Thursday, the staff voted to go...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
Fujitsu Faces Five-day Strike
News Staff at the Manchester offices of technology giant Fujitsu will go on a five-day strike in just over two weeks' time, as the ongoing dispute between the company and trade union Amicus shows little sign of resolution.
[January 19, 2007, 16:01]
US Report: Jobs Says Apple Ready To Strike
News Lightning didn't strike at Macworld Expo like it did last year, when Apple unveiled a new board of directors and a $150m (£91.5m) investment from rival Microsoft, but interim CEO Steve Jobs made a series of iMac-related announcements designed to...
[July 9, 1998, 11:27]
French To Strike Over HP Job Cuts?
Talkback The French strike when they've got jobs! If striking was considdered as a job then the French would have lower unimployment than the UK.
[September 15, 2005, 20:28]
