This week, T-Mobile technicians in Connecticut voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). While we’re always excited when workers gain the protections and benefits of union membership, it’s especially gratifying to see at T-Mobile, where management has been especially hostile to workers’ rights. In fact, the switchboard operators based in Simsbury, CT, are the first T-Mobile employees in the United States to form a union.
As CWA Local 1298 President Bill Henderson put it, “this vote made history, with T-Mobile workers fighting back to beat the odds and win the union voice they want. It showed the desire of people to have a union and an even playing field.”
Like many employers in the United States, including IKEA, T-Mobile is owned by an international parent company that shows less regard for the rights of its U.S. workforce than the employees in their home country.
As we noted in our report on T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom, the company believes in workers’ rights in Germany, where it cooperates with its employees’ unions, but mistreats workers and interferes with their efforts to form unions in the United States. In Germany, Deutsche Telekom is a good corporate citizen; in the United States, it models its behavior on the race to the bottom tactics of Walmart: threatening workers, distributing false information, and employing costly unionbusting consultants.
Nevertheless, even in the face of these obstacles, T-Mobile employees in Connecticut stood up and demanded a voice on the job. We can only hope this marks the beginning of a new, more responsible era at T-Mobile.
*photo courtesy of CWA
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