NLRB Orders T-Mobile to 'Disestablish' Company-Backed Workplace Organization
A National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge ruled T-Mobile created an illegal workplace organization as workers for the carrier were trying to organize an independent union, the Communications Workers of America said in a Tuesday news release. ALJ Sharon…
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Levinson Steckler ordered T-Mobile to disband the company-controlled organization, T-Voice. The carrier must “immediately disestablish and cease giving assistance, including administration and financial assistance, or any other support to T-Voice or any other labor organization,” Steckler ruled. The company must also stop “dominating, interfering with the formation or administration, or assisting or otherwise supporting T-Voice or any other labor organization at any of its call center facilities,” she held. “If T-Mobile wants to address its workers’ concerns and ideas, we have democratically-elected representatives ready and willing to meet with management to discuss how we can improve our workplace,” said Angela Melvin, a T-Mobile customer service representative in Wichita, Kansas, in the CWA release. Melvin is on the steering committee of the CWA-sponsored T-Mobile Workers United. The company didn't comment.