NLRB Moves Forward On Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against T-Mobile US

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/nlrb_moves_forward_on_unfair_labor_practice_charges_against_t-mobile_us#.UngzUCcliRM

Nov 4, 2013

Washington, D.C. – On Nov. 1, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon announced that the U.S. government would prosecute T-Mobile US for violating U.S. labor law. (*)

The government now intends to prove that T-Mobile US illegally fired Joshua Coleman and disciplined Ellen Brackeen, who both worked at a call center in Wichita, Kan., because of their union activity.(*)

“The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has taken an important step in prosecuting T-Mobile US on the discharge of Josh Coleman, as well as discipline against Ellen Brackeen,” said CWA President Larry Cohen. “The NLRB will also reopen the charge related to destroying Josh's notebooks documenting discrimination for union activity at the site. This action by the General Counsel is rare and speaks to the systematic abuse of workers’ rights by T-Mobile US and the hands off approach by the Deutsche Telekom, a German corporation that owns 75 percent of T-Mobile US. Earlier this year several thousand Deutsche Telekom workers in Germany wore shirts to work and other public events that said, ‘We are all Josh.’(*)

“All of us in CWA and the German union ver.di applaud the action of the General Counsel, and we look forward to the day when T-Mobile US is tolerant of those who organize, just as its German owner Deutsche Telekom has been for generations.”

FULL story at link.

[gopiscrap]

1. good

[Divine Discontent]

2. +1!

always good to hear when workers rights are protected, or at least they're trying to review what happened.