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Sunday, December 13, 2009

How T-Mobile Scares its Employees with a “Culture of Fear”

From FireDogLake:

photo: Gadget Virtuoso via Flickr

T-Mobile has a nasty habit of intimidating its employees from joining unions, including repeated instances of turning surveillance and security guards on employees and organizers.

A new report from Labor Professor John Logan and American Rights at Work details multiple violations of the law by T-Mobile, recurring intimidation of employees, and what one employee called a “culture of fear” preventing employees from joining together in a union.

Workers have roundly criticized what one Allentown-based employee called the “culture of fear” that management has created around the issues of unionization and collective bargaining. “We have to be secretive,” he explains, “like spies.” Another employee elaborated on this culture of fear: “We are basically left to fear for our jobs on a daily basis, or just quit…. In the past [some workers] tried to contact a union and were then fired. [I’m afraid] this is what will happen to me.”

What makes up the “culture of fear” for T-Mobile corporate management?

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