Britain’s telecommunications network will face disruptions as workers at telecom giant BT Group (BT) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay.
The company is facing the first national strike since it was privatised in the 1980s, after members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at BT and its wholly-owned subsidiary Openreach backed industrial action.
Openreach members voted by 95 percent in favour of strikes on a 74 percent turnout and BT workers by 91 percent on a 58 percent turnout.
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CWU general secretary Dave Ward said BT workers “kept this country connected during the pandemic,” without which “there would have been no home-working revolution.”…