Apple workers vote to form tech giant’s first-ever US union
- Employees of an Apple store in Towson, Maryland are demanding a say in deciding on their wages, hours and on safety measures
- It wasn’t the first time employees at an Apple store had tried to unionise, but it was the first attempt that resulted in a vote
A majority of employees at a US Apple store have voted to form a union, a first for the tech giant, which has so far tried to discourage unionising attempts.
Of the 110 employees at the Towson, Maryland shop, 65 voted in favour and 33 against, according to a live count broadcast Saturday by the federal agency overseeing the vote.
The vote comes after a group of employees called AppleCORE (Coalition of Organised Retail Employees) campaigned for unionisation.
“We did it Towson! We won our union vote! Thanks to all who worked so hard and all who supported! Now we celebrate … Tomorrow we keep organising,” AppleCORE tweeted.
They are demanding a say in deciding on wages, hours and safety measures.
Saturday’s result means that the shop’s employees, who have been voting since Wednesday, should form their own branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union, once the agency has certified the results.