Labor news: Apple workers at Maryland store vote to join union in a US first
Retail workers voted 65-33 to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, despite Apple opposing the effort."I applaud the courage displayed by CORE members at the Apple store in Towson for achieving this historic victory,” said Robert Martinez Jr., the international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Workers had sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook last month about their intent to organize, calling themselves the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, or CORE for short. "This is something we do not to go against or create conflict with our management. Rather, we have come together as a union because of a deep love of our role as workers within the company," they wrote."The decision to form a union is about us as workers gaining access to rights that we do not currently have."
The Maryland store is not the only location to seek unionization. A vote to unionize workers at an Apple store in Atlanta was withdrawn in May after the Communications Workers of America claimed Apple had violated labor laws and made a fair election impossible, according to CNBC.The Towson retail workers join a growing wave of organizers who have worked to establish unions at companies including Amazon, Starbucks, and Google parent company Alphabet.
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