Californian Democrats Call On Deutsche Telekom to End the Double Standard

By: Tuesday September 28, 2010 9:21 am

On September 21, 15 Members of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann urging him to “take action and implement a policy of fair and equitable labor relations between T-Mobile and their employees, one similar to the policy in Germany.” The Members of Congress express their concern about the double standard in labor relations that T-Mobile is perpetuating by denying American workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.

Deutsche Telekom Rated Journalists and then Spied on Them — Is The Real T-Mobile Next?

By: Thursday September 16, 2010 12:24 pm

The spying affair in Deutsche Telekom is snowballing.

According to a story from German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Telekom hired the detective agency “Network Deutschland” to assess news articles that appeared about the company between January 2005 and March 2006. They created a “black list” of journalists, who published sensitive material on a regular base.

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