Teamsters president endorses AT&T merger

James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, endorsed the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile this week, adding another show of labor support for the blockbuster deal. Hoffa said he hopes it would strengthen the labor movement. AT&T's workers unionize but T-Mobile's largely do not. Hoffa said that the merger "means that hundreds of T-Mobile workers will work for a management team that maintains full neutrality toward union membership."