There has subsequently been a union loss at a nearby Amazon facility, also on Staten Island. And it followed a failed attempt by a different union to represent an Amazon distribution center in Alabama. The union win at the Staten Island Amazon location is being challenged by the company. The win at the Apple store in Maryland came after union supporters at an Apple store in Atlanta withdrew their request to hold a vote. The Amazon distribution center in Staten Island had about 8,300 workers while the company has more than 1 million US employees overall. (SBUX) stores, the union has won the right to represent only roughly 5,000 of the 235,000 employees at Starbucks Even with all the successful votes at Starbucks Still, it is an uphill battle for unions to win organizing votes. There have also been a string of union victories at Starbucks stores nationwide since late last year. (AMZN) facility to vote in favor a union. (AMZN) distribution center in Staten Island, New York, the first Amazon The Apple store vote follows an April union victory at an Amazon “They made a huge sacrifice for thousands of Apple employees across the nation who had all eyes on this election.” “I applaud the courage displayed by CORE members at the Apple store in Towson for achieving this historic victory,” said IAM International President Robert Martinez. It was backed by the larger International Association of Machinists, known for its strength of production workers at Boeing as well as many of the employees in the US airline industry. The union that won the vote is called the Apple Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, or AppleCORE for short. “We are pleased to offer very strong compensation and benefits for full time and part time employees, including health care, tuition reimbursement, new parental leave, paid family leave, annual stock grants and many other benefits.” “We are fortunate to have incredible retail team members and we deeply value everything they bring to Apple,” the company said in a statement ahead of the vote. (AAPL) spokesperson declined to comment on the vote. “I am not ready to leave here because of the connection I have with teammates,” she said. As to whether she thought about leaving Apple for another job, said said she felt as if her co-workers are a kind of family. “I knew I wasn’t alone in being frustrated,” she said. “We wanted a say in the policies that affect our lives,” she said, adding that she wasn’t surprised by the outcome of the vote, but was relieved. Pridgen said workers having a say in hours and scheduling and being involved in establishing safety protocols during the pandemic were the big issues. “That was the most important thing to me.” “ Compensation is important, considering the cost of living in general and inflation, but the bigger thing is having a say,” she told CNN Business Saturday night after the vote. Pridgen, 34, said she’s worked at the store for more than 8 years. The major issue driving the organizing vote was workers wanting to have a say in the way the store is run, said Christie Pridgen, a technical expert at the store and one of the organizers. Saturday’s vote marks a major victory for retail workers at Apple, which has in recent months experienced a wave of employee activism within its corporate ranks - a movement that’s come to be known as #AppleToo. That has made employees who are dissatisfied with their jobs more willing to demand better working conditions, including through unionization. And the number of employees quitting jobs, typically because they found better opportunities, remains near recently reached record highs. The number of employees being fired or laid off recently reached a record low. There are now roughly twice as many job openings as there are unemployed people looking for work, leaving employers scrambling to fill jobs. The US labor market has tipped much more strongly in favor of workers over the past two years. (AAPL) store in the Towson Town Center, a mall near Baltimore, comes amid a broader wave of workplace activism that has emerged in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The victory for union organizers at the Apple The landmark union election concluded on Saturday evening with 65 workers voting for unionization and 33 against it, a nearly two-to-one margin in favor of the union, according to a preliminary tally from the National Labor Relations Board. Apple workers in Towson, Maryland, have voted to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |