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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

Strikes, ‘food banks’, takeover fears: the sea of troubles circling BT

A BT engineer working on telephone lines
A BT engineer working on telephone lines. Up to 28,000 engineers are going on strike on Friday and Monday. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

BT’s first national strikes in 35 years, which kick off on Friday morning, are just the latest in a series of headaches to have beset the telecoms company.

Amid a backlash over accusations that it set up a “food bank” for cash-strapped staff and the growing threat from a stake-building corporate raider, Philip Jansen’s mission to recreate BT’s glory days as a “national champion” seems to slipping away.

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