By Kevin McCauley
FitzGibbon Media is repping the Communications Workers of America union, which is fighting T-Mobile’s plan to close seven U.S. call centers and off-shore those jobs.
The CWA today unveiled a video that parodies T-Mobile’s ad campaign that features the perky young woman in the pink dress.
In CWA’s version, the pink-dressed spokeswoman receives a “pink slip” from T-Mobile and is hopping mad over the plan to drop 3,300 Americans from the payroll. She changes into a black leather outfit, and hops on a motorcycle to protest T-Mobile’s cutbacks.
The call centers slated to close are located in Allentown, PA; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Brownsville and Frisco, TX; Thornton, CO; Redmond, OR, and Lenexa, KS.
CWA also is pushing for support of the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act, which has 120 co-sponsors in the House. The bill bans companies that receive U.S. grants and tax breaks from shipping call centers overseas.
More than 500,000 U.S. call center jobs have gone off-shore during the past five years. Some of those centers benefited from funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
On April 26, USAID suspended a program to train Filipino workers for call center jobs and promised to review overseas English language training programs to gauge whether they contribute to job losses here.
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