Communications Workers of America members testified in favor of New Mexico House Bill...
Communications Workers of America members testified in favor of New Mexico House Bill 277, it said in a blog post (http://bit.ly/WmXaRw). The proposed law would prevent employers from mandating that workers attend meetings for the purpose of pushing the employer’s…
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religious or political opinions, it said. T-Mobile workers testified, it said. “We were advised that we shouldn’t worry about union representatives or supporters being able to interact with us, as T-Mobile personnel would be patrolling the grounds to prevent any interaction,” T-Mobile worker Lynda Parrish said, according to the post. “I felt so intimidated after the meeting and since then it has created a consistent, underlying sense of fear in me.” CWA focused on a past incident that targeted unionizing: “The team manager called workers off the phones for about 5 minutes to read a letter that supposedly had the ‘facts’ about joining a union, from lies the union would tell to union dues.” The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee Feb. 18. “T-Mobile USA is a great place to work,” a T-Mobile spokesperson told us in a statement when asked about the CWA testimony. “In a recent anonymous third party employee satisfaction survey, 77% of T-Mobile’s 34,000 employees said they would recommend T-Mobile as a great place to work, and 83% said they are proud to work at the company, placing T-Mobile on par with the top 25% of all companies surveyed in the United States.”