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Earlier this week, Philip Jennings, the General Secretary of UNI Global Union, travelled to Patchogue, New York, to verify that a majority of T-Mobile workers had made a loud and clear statement: they want a union. Jennings checked the cards, and met with the workers. He learned that T-Mobile had hired notorious “union avoidance” expert Peter Conrad to delay the legal proceedings and thwart the drive.



”I am proud to be here in New York with T-Mobile USA workers who are standing up for their organising and union representation rights. They join their T-Mobile USA co-workers in upstate New York and Connecticut who also are standing strong for a union voice.



In any other country, these workers would already have their union. Their right to union representation would already be recognised. 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 organising and bargaining rights. Workers have spoken with a strong voice for their union rights. That should be sufficient. That’s the standard that T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, follows in Germany.



That should be the standard here. It isn’t yet, but we will continue to support the T-Mobile USA workers in every way we can to help them gain their union.”