Unions, NWLC Deliver Petitions to German Embassy Seeking End to T-Mobile Employee Gag Order Policy
The AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America and National Women's Law Center delivered 15,000 petition signatures to the German Embassy Tuesday, asking the country's government to press T-Mobile to abandon a company policy that silences workers who speak out against sexual…
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harassment, a CWA news release said. The German state owns about 32 percent of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's German parent. In August, the National Labor Relations Board found T-Mobile guilty of violating the rights of a T-Mobile employee who no longer works there. Since T-Mobile had to withdraw employee gag order policies only at its call centers in Maine and South Carolina, the release said, the rest of T-Mobile's 46,000 employees don't know these nondisclosure agreements violate U.S. labor law. "No one should have to decide between keeping their job and staying safe," AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler said. "But that unfortunate choice is put to working women under T-Mobile's current practice of silencing workers who come forward with sexual harassment claims. Today we are calling on the German government as a major stakeholder to hold T-Mobile accountable and demand they protect workers' rights and women's equality." T-Mobile didn't comment.