“Can the German Government Get T-Mobile to Change Its Sexual Harassment Policy?”, 9 Jan 2016

...[O]ne in three women have been sexually harassed in the workplace…The alarming scope of this problem is readily visible to anyone who has been following the case of Angela Agganis, a former T-Mobile employee…Agganis…had been repeatedly harassed by a male supervisor…Aggani was…told that, if she informed any coworkers about the situation, she would be fired….Agganis is now suing T-Mobile and organizers are trying to bring more attention to her situation by putting pressure on an unusual target: the German government. T-Mobile's parent company is Germany's Deutsche Telekom…[T]he German government still holds a direct 15 percent stake in the company…Agganis' petition…called upon the German government to work toward improving T-Mobile's labor practices…"Workers should know that the nondisclosure agreement is void and that they are free to exercise their legally protected rights."…[M]any workers look to alter the company's workplace culture…[D]uring a 2014 trial T-Mobile even admitted that it had constructed a system to monitor potential worker organizing and eradicate any unionization…With vast organizing, a huge lawsuit, worker solidarity and pressure from lawmakers, 2016 might be the year that Germany's government is forced to reckon with their 32 percent stake in one of the United States' most popular wireless companies.