At the AGM of Deutsche Telekom, UNI Global Union, representing more than 20 million workers from over 900 trade unions in the services sector, demanded an end to the company’s belligerent anti-union stance in the USA. Deutsche Telekom’s American mobile communications service T-Mobile USA has come under criticism for its punitive anti-worker practices and labour abuses.
The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) has started work with UNI on planning organising campaigns in the West Bank, starting with the National Trade Union of Banking and Insurance (NTUPI).
40,000 CWA union members from AT&T across the US staged a three-day strike from Friday to Sunday to defend their jobs against rampant outsourcing by the company.
Over half the workers who stopped work were contact centre and retail workers for AT&T Mobility, the mobile arm of AT&T. Contact centre workers are concerned for their job security with AT&T moving work to low-wage contractors, including at offshore locations.
Over 40,000 CWA union members at US telecoms company AT&T are walking off the job for three days from this Friday 19th of May.
The dispute is over the mass outsourcing of AT&T jobs to low-wage contractors, slashing the pay and benefits of workers.
Support 40,000 AT&T workers on strike against low-wage outsourcing in the US by clicking here, and sending a message to company CEO Randall Stephenson.
At the L20 in Berlin, UNI, AFL-CIO & DGB urged Chancellor Merkel to demand change through T-Mobile US’s parent company Deutsche Telekom.
The world’s largest outsourced contact centre provider Teleperformance, has failed in its attempt to fire Dominican union leader Oliver Benson. The four labour court judges who heard the case unanimously found that Teleperformance could not dismiss the union leader.
The court case against Oliver resulted in a social media activity on the 28th of February, the day of the Telepeformance’s 2016 profit announcement, protesting the company’s attempt to fire the union leader. Oliver’s case was raised with telecoms company, and Teleperformance client, AT&T by CWA union in the US.
UNI Management Committee gives its full backing to UNI DGS Christy Hoffman to become General Secretary at UNI World Congress 2018
The UNI Management Committee is meeting to discuss the strategies towards Liverpool 2018 and beyond
UNI DGS Christy Hoffman reports back on joint ITUC & ETUC mission in Turkey
UNICARE affiliate SIPTU leading role in discussions at ILO meeting “Improving Employment and Working Conditions in Health Services”
