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Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to authorize a first strike over working conditions

— Workers at the first Apple Store to unionize have now also authorized a first strike against the tech giant’s retail operations. Apple Store workers in Towson, Maryland, voted late Saturday to authorize a strike, according to a statement from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the workers. The vote followed …

The U.S. union membership rate reached an all-time low last year despite high-profile unionization campaigns at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and other companies. In 1983, the first year that comparable data is available, the union membership rate was 20.1%, the government said. Public-sector workers, like police and teachers, had the highest unionization rates last year, at 33%. And workers at an …

Apple to assess its labour practices

Apple will audit its U.S. labor practices under an agreement with a coalition of investors, a report said. The audit will look into whether Apple is complying with its official human rights policy as it relates to “workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in the United States,” according to a report by New York Times, citing a company …

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Apple workers in Oklahoma vote to unionize in 2nd labor win

NEW YORK — Workers at an Apple store in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, marking the second unionized Apple store in the U.S. in a matter of months, according to the federal labor board. Fifty-six workers at the store, located at Oklahoma City’s Penn Square Mall, voted to be represented by The Communications Workers of America, while 32 voted against …

Maryland Apple workers face hurdles after vote to unionize

— The historic vote by employees of a Maryland Apple store to unionize — a first for the technology giant — is a significant step in a lengthy process that labor experts say is heavily stacked against workers in favor of their employers. The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of …

Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. At least 150 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have voted to unionize since then, according to the National Labor Relations Board, and at least 10 stores have rejected the union. AMAZON Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize in …

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store

— Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections. The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union’s …

Apple Inc workers in Maryland, US vote to join a union

Workers in Maryland become the first retail employees of Apple Inc to unionize in the US. Apple Inc workers in the city of Maryland in the United States have voted to join a union, becoming the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionize in the country. The local workers, forming the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, “have the …

Employees at a New York Apple store are trying to unionize

New York CNN Business — Some employees at the Apple store at New York’s Grand Central Terminal are seeking to form a union, the latest high-profile labor organizing effort to take root in the pandemic era. A person familiar with the matter told CNN Business that workers at the Grand Central Apple store have begun collecting signatures to file a …