Up to 13,000 British Telecom (BT) employees have opted to take industrial action to express displeasure over a deadlock in resolving disputes regarding pay and working hours. In a sign of the times, however, not only are they insisting on capping work hours to contractual terms of 36 hours per week, the activists will also render themselves incommunicado.

A spokeswoman said, "Once the 36 hours are up, we expect our members to go home and switch off their BlackBerries, mobile phones and PCs." The members hope to show the amount of lost productivity when an employee does not work outside of contracted hours.

For more on this BlackBerry blackout of sorts:
- check out this UNI Telecom article [1]

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