Issue No 25 | 06 August 1999 | |
Letters to the EditorConfessions of a German Call Centre Agent
Dear "Workers Online". I have been Call Center Agent for the Citibank Telecenter in Bochum, Germany for about 6 years. I have been member of the worker`s council for about 5 years - until Citibank decided to close 6 Call Centers in Germany with about 1200 workers in June 1999. Since August 1998, when we learned about the consequences of the merger Citibank/Travelers (possible thanks to a change of the "Glass Steagall Act" as far as we are informed) that include the rationalization of about 10500 jobs worldwide, we kept alive resistance against Citibank-policy in public and put hard stress on the fact, that the local ongoings are symptomatic for global strategies of "global players". Even after the closure of the Telecenters we kept resistance alive. We�re planning an international image campaign against Citibank-policy (and - by the way - projects like MAI and orgabisations like BILDERBERGERs, TRILATERAL COMMISSION, CfR etc.)and are looking for persons and insitutions world-wide, who would like to participate. This campaign is co-organized by German Union hbv, whose President is Margret M�nig-Raane, 1. Vice-President of FIET. Any contact to people, unions, private persons, that would like to contribute to our campaign with informations about outcontracting or destruction of working-places in Citicorps blue universe are welcome! Thanks in forward, Hannes Oberlindober P.S.: visit the homepage of our self-founded service-center TEKOMEDIA GmbH (http://www.tekomedia.de). As a reaction on the loss of our old company we founded a new one - we`d love to carry out services for unions, for UNI especially.
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