Apple store approves union, the first in the U.S.
Apple store approves union, the first in the U.S.
By Rachel Lerman and Praveena Somasundaram
June 18, 2022 at 8:29 p.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/18/apple-union-vote/
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Apple workers in Towson, Md., voted to join a union on Saturday, becoming the first of the tech giant’s U.S. retail stores to do so.
The vote means workers at the store plan to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers once a contract is ratified. Saturday evening’s initial tally was 65-33, and the official count was pending.
This vote is part of an organizing wave sweeping the nation as workers increasingly band together to demand higher pay, better benefits and more negotiating leverage with their employers during the pandemic. In New York, the first Amazon warehouse voted to form a union in the spring. Dozens of Starbucks stores across the country have unionized, and labor movements have pushed into outdoor retailer REI and video-game maker Raven Software.
Workers in at least two other Apple stores are trying to organize, including at a store in New York and one in Atlanta, where workers became the first location to file documents with the National Labor Relations Board. But the Communications Workers of America withdrew its request for an election there last month, saying in a statement that Apple’s “repeated violations of the National Labor Relations Act have made a free and fair election impossible.”
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