First-Unionized Apple Employees Say Firm Is Withholding New Benefits

October 29, 2022 By Monica Green

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Activists at the Apple shop in Towson Town Center, Maryland, assert that the firm isn't being completely truthful about withholding benefits from the location's employees. Workers claim it is challenging for them to argue for their benefits as the company's first retail store to unionize in the US pushes for contract negotiations. The negotiating committee expresses disappointment in a letter to Tim Cook that the business will not provide new health and education benefits to workers at the location that are being rolled out to other retail employees. Additionally, the union claims that Apple has been disseminating "misinformation" by claiming that employees would have to negotiate for these perks to be included in their employment agreement. The letter, which you can read in full below, claims that "there is key context missing in this email around the process of change inside a unionized store and the fact that we may, and we will include these (and any new benefits) in our collective bargaining contract proposal." First-Unionized Apple Employees Say Firm Is Withholding New Benefits

First-Unionized Apple Employees Say Firm Is Withholding New Benefits

The organization asserts that by withholding "any specifics" about those perks, Apple has made it challenging to negotiate for those benefits. Apple ignored several requests for comment from The Verge over the union's allegations. IAM CORE, a union affiliated with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, won the June union election by a ratio of almost two to one. However, there are currently continuing union drives at Apple stores in New York and Atlanta, where the danger of losing benefits may influence voters' decisions or possibly prevent elections from taking place at all. In May, the Atlanta campaign's union called off the election, claiming that Apple had made it impossible to conduct a fair election.

By Monica Green

I am specialised in latest tech and tech discoveries.

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