NLRB General Counsel Consolidates Complaints Against T-Mobile

In an extraordinary decision, the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board has consolidated multiple unfair labor practice complaints that have been brought against T-Mobile US. The telecommunications company has been repeatedly cited for its relentless and escalating attempts over the past 10 years to stop workers from obtaining union representation.

That puts T-Mobile in Walmart’s league as both have had consolidated complaints issued by the NLRB general counsel.

T-Mobile must defend a wide range of illegal actions, and the Board can order

broad relief for employees at every TMUS location. There is clear evidence that T-Mobile US headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., has been monitoring workers’ actions and that the company’s anti-union campaign has been orchestrated from headquarters as well, as indicated by T-Mobile’s “third party activity reports.”

The first hearing will begin in September in Albuquerque, N.M., where two workers were illegally disciplined, then fired because of their support for union representation. One hearing officer and team will hear all complaints, witnesses and evidence in Albuquerque and subsequent locations.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile workers are joining TU, a joint union formed by the German union ver.di, which represents workers at T-Mobile and parent company Deutsche Telekom, and CWA.

ver.di members in Germany are stepping up their support of T-Mobile US workers.

Recently in Berlin, more than 1,000 ver.di activists and international trade unionists rallied outside Deutsche Telekom’s offices to pressure the company into stopping its subsidiary’s anti-worker abuses.

That same day, messages of solidarity from activists in the Indian trade union movement, British union leaders, U.S. and European activists , from members of Arab unions and from many others around the globe lit up Twitter with support for T-Mobile workers.