[November 18, 2009] BLOG: Sprint Connection: Union ramps up efforts to organize T-Mobile [The Kansas City Star, Mo.] Tweet (Kansas City Star (MO) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 18--The Associated Press U.S. union officials are teaming up with their German counterparts in a bid to organize workers at wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. Leaders at the Communications Workers of America say the new arrangement with German union ver.di will help show a "double standard" between how European companies treat workers in their home countries compared with the United States. T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom AG is known as a union-friendly model in Germany, where cooperation with unions is encouraged by labor laws. But CWA president Larry Cohen says T-Mobile USA has worked aggressively against union organizing since it entered the U.S. market nine years ago. A spokesman for Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile USA says employees view the company as a good place to work and have no interest in a union. To see more of The Kansas City Star, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.kansascity.com. Copyright (c) 2009, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]