Employees at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland set a date to their union elections. Workers at the Towson Town Center site will vote in person over four daysfrom 15.6.
The organizers call themselves the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (AppleCore). They aim to unionize with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
in one Letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the group said that “a solid majority” of staff supports the union movement. They said they were organizing “out of a deep love for our role as workers within the company and out of concern for the company itself.” They want “access to rights that we don’t currently have” and for Apple to apply the same neutrality agreements with suppliers to workers “so that we as workers can enforce our rights to information and collective bargaining that the law grants us to unionize.”
They will be the second group of Apple Store workers to hold a union election. Those at the Cumberland Mall location in Atlanta will vote in early June on whether to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Employees at Apple stores other than Towson and Atlanta are also campaigning for unions. Workers at the Grand Central Terminal store in New York City collected signatures for a union ballot.
While Apple has agreed to the elections in Maryland and Georgia, the company is reportedly fighting union organizing efforts. It is said to have hired the same anti-union law firm as Starbucks. The company has also reportedly used anti-union topics of conversation in pre-shift meetings at some locations. This week, workers at two Apple stores accused Apple of union busting in files on unfair labor practices.
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