BT staff pencil in further strikes over ‘insulting’ pay deal

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is organising further BT and Openreach strikes over the coming months. Around 40,000 Openreach engineers and BT call centre staff undertook strike action last month over “weak, insulting” below-inflation pay rises. “Workers will not accept a massive deterioration in their living standards,” said Dave Ward, General Secretary of the CWU,…

BT staff pencil in further strikes over ‘insulting’ pay deal

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is organising further BT and Openreach strikes over the coming months. Around 40,000 Openreach engineers and BT call centre staff undertook strike action last month over “weak, insulting” below-inflation pay rises. “Workers will not accept a massive deterioration in their living standards,” said Dave Ward, General Secretary of the CWU,…

Vodafone, Bayer deploy private 5G inside German greenhouse

The private 5G network will support advanced tools like autonomous robots, artificial intelligence and digital imaging Vodafone has deployed a 5G private network at a Bayer greenhouse in Monheim, Germany to improve its research into insecticides. The network will support advanced tools like autonomous robots, artificial intelligence and digital imaging. “Networked digital technologies will make…