Michaud urges jobs provision in T-Mobile merger
U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and 61 other members of Congress have asked the Federal Communications Commission to guard U.S. jobs as they consider a pending acquisition by T-Mobile, which employs 500 Maine workers at a call center in Oakland.
As T-Mobile nears a purchase of MetroPCS, Michaud's letter asks the FCC to include a provision in the transaction agreement about keeping jobs in the United States if the merger is approved, the Bangor Daily News reported.
In the letter, Michaud and the other representatives wrote that MetroPCS outsources all of its customer service operations and T-Mobile recently closed seven call centers in the U.S., prompting the concern about the merger and further reductions.
A T-Mobile representative told the paper that it plans to continue hiring in Maine through 2013 and that the Oakland call center brought on 200 employees in the last year.
Members of Maine's delegation raised similar flags in 2011 when AT&T made a $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile, a deal that was ultimately dropped.
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