Apple intimidates retail workers into cancelling union vote
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Apple intimidates retail workers into cancelling union vote
The Apple Store in Cumberland Mall will not become the first to have a union.
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Employees of an Apple store in Atlanta won’t be voting to form a union after all. They withdrew their request with the National Labor Relations Board, and said Apple had carried out “a systematic, sophisticated campaign to intimidate them.”
It is not known how this will effect the employees trying to form a union at an Apple retail store in New York
Atlanta Apple Store ends union efforts
Retail employees make up a significant percentage of Apple’s headcount, and none of them are currently unionized. A pair of stores had started an effort to change that, but Apple has reportedly done its best to nip that in the bud.
The Apple Store in Cumberland Mall in suburban Atlanta was scheduled to hold a union vote after 70% of workers there signed cards of support. But the Communications Workers of America, who was helping the employees, sent out a statement on Friday saying the plan had been dropped.
“Apple has conducted a systematic, sophisticated campaign to intimidate them and interfere with their right to form a union,” said the CWA statement. “We are not moving forward with the election given what Apple’s response has been and the coercive environment they created.”
Going union busting
Apple came out swinging against the employee efforts to unionize. The CWA filed two complaints with the NLRB accusing the iPhone-maker of intimidating workers.
The company also hired Littler Mendelson, a law firm with a history of helping businesses prevent their employees from unionizing.
And Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s SVP of retail and Human Resources, sent an anti-union video to employees this week that said, in part, “I worry about what it would mean to put another organization in the middle of our relationship. An organization that does not have a deep understanding of Apple or our business. And most importantly one that I do not believe shares our commitment to you.”
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