Will T-Mobile Workers Finally Get Neutrality in Organizing Campaigns?

Labor Secretary Tom Perez is setting the record straight.

For years, CWA has called on T-Mobile to adopt a management neutrality agreement, in which the company agrees not to interfere in workers' choice about union representation. Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's German parent company, continues to assert that such a neutrality agreement would violate U.S. law.

Not so, said Perez, who wrote a letter to German Labor and Social Affairs Minister Andrea Nahles last week to clear up any confusion. "These sorts of voluntary recognition agreements – including terms that provide ground rules for organizing – promote peaceful labor relations and employee free choice. These agreements have been held to be lawful and have been enforced by the National Labor Relations Board and the courts," he wrote.

Maybe now Deutsche Telekom finally will get the message and end its campaign of unlawful firings, intimidation, harassment and surveillance of workers who want a union voice.

Read the full letter here.