AT&T to Buy T-Mobile, Union Targets $15 Million/yr in Dues Through Card Check
21st March 2011
Sunday’s breaking business story is the announcement that unionized AT&T will be buying union-free T-Mobile for $39 billion. With 42,000 mostly union-free employees, German-owned T-Mobile has long been a target of the red-shirted Communications Workers of America. Now, as the mostly unionized AT&T Mobility has agreed to allow the CWA to unionize its employees without secret-ballot elections (via neutrality and card-check), the red-shirted union bosses are seeing the green that will likely come from T-Mobile’s employees.
Not to mention that T-Mobile users can watch their service plunge into the toilet, as happened to me when the Old AT&T was bought by Cingular.