T-Mobile employees join the Fight for $15

It’s not just fast food workers that are fighting for a living wage. Too many T-Mobile workers make less than $15 an hour while the company CEO, John Legere, makes $25 million dollar a year – more than 500 times what an average T-Mobile worker makes.

At the first ever national Fight for $15 convention in Richmond, VA, T-Mobile employee Rebecca Disbrow stood with other low-wage workers – nursing assistants, cafeteria workers, home care assistants, and fast food workers – to explain why she’s joining them to fight for $15 per hour and a union.

Watch the video here.

T-Mobile has repeatedly violated US labor law. Earlier this year, an NLRB administrative law judge ruled that T-Mobile’s call center in Wichita unlawfully stifled inter-employee communications, coercively interrogated workers, isolated union sympathizers, and put its workforce under surveillance.  T-Mobile started a company union to drain support from an independent one. And prior to the ruling earlier this year, the NLRB found T-Mobile guilty of nationwide labor law violations for illegal corporate policies that blocked workers from organizing or even talking to one another about problems at work.

Links:

The Fight For $15 matters to T-Mobile workers. Here’s why. (T-Mobile Workers United, Aug. 30, 2016)

T-Mobile violates US labor law – again (Speed Matters, June 30, 2016)

T-Mobile starts company union, violates US labor law (Speed Matters, May 2, 2016)

T-Mobile Guilty of Illegal Corporate Policies Against US Workers (Speed Matters, Mar. 19, 2015)

T-Mobile can't force workers to be happy at work (Speed Matters, May 24, 2016)