While T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, respects workers’ right to bargain collectively in Germany, T-Mobile’s U.S. management has fought workers’ attempts to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA) with campaigns of delaying tactics and interference to intimidate workers.

You can help T-Mobile employees gain a voice on the job by signing a petition here telling Deutsche Telekom we expect better from a corporation that asserts it’s committed to social justice. Join in by demanding that T-Mobile USA stop bullying workers and agree to end all interference in their workers’ decision to join CWA. The petition is sponsored by LabourStart in partnership with the global 20 million-member UNI Global Union.

In July, UNI; the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); ver.di, the union for Deutsche Telekom workers; and CWA filed a complaint under the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises against Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile for anti-worker activities in the United States. Click here to read the complaint.

The same month, a group of T-Mobile technicians in Hamden, Conn., became the first T-Mobile workers to win a voice at work with CWA. In June, T-Mobile workers in Long Island, N.Y., took the first step toward forming a union by signing union authorization cards (see video above).

Says UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings, who traveled to Long Island from UNI headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, to verify the card signings:

In any other country, these workers would already have their union. Their right to union representation would already be recognized. But not here in the United States, where delay and harassment is the game plan that most corporations seem to follow.

That’s why the worldwide union movement is supporting the effort by T-Mobile USA workers to gain full organizing and bargaining rights, Jennings said.

Workers have spoken with a strong voice for their union rights. That should be sufficient.