page_title: T-Mobile US
section_title: 2009 coordinated organizing effort
hierarchical_section_title: T-Mobile US / Labor relations / 2009 coordinated organizing effort
caption_attribution_description: English: Larry Cohen and a disguised T-Mobile worker at a press conference.
context_page_description: T-Mobile US, Inc., commonly shortened to T-Mobile, is an American wireless network operator. Its largest shareholder is the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom with a 43% share, with Japanese conglomerate holding company SoftBank Group partially owning the company as well at a 24% share. The remaining 33% share of the company is owned by the public through common stock. Its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington, in the Seattle metropolitan area. T-Mobile is the second-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 98.3 million customers as of the end of Q2 2020.
  T-Mobile US provides wireless voice and data services in the United States under the T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile brands, and also serves as the host network for many mobile virtual network operators. The company has annual revenues of over $40 billion. In 2015, Consumer Reports named T-Mobile the number one American wireless carrier.
  On April 1, 2020, T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation completed their merger with T-Mobile now being the whole owner of Sprint, making Sprint an effective subsidiary of T-Mobile until the Sprint brand was officially phased out.
context_section_description: In 2008, the CWA and ver.di launched a coordinated effort to unionize company employees. A spokesman for the CWA called on the company to stop resisting mobilization efforts and allow company employees to unionize as German employees of T-Mobile USA's parent company, DT, have done. In response, the company released an employee satisfaction study showing that more than seventy percent of the company's 40,000 workers were "very satisfied" with their jobs. Through a spokesman, the company stated, "Despite the Communication Workers of America's periodic organizing efforts for more than nine years, no group of T-Mobile employees has ever chosen to be represented by a union. While our company is always striving to find ways to improve, year after year, employees continue to view T-Mobile as a good place to work where they have no need for, or interest in, a union."
caption: CWA President Larry Cohen and a disguised, unidentified T-Mobile USA employee pictured at a 2009 press conference announcing a coordinated unionizing effort
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