This is sadly what the world has come to especially w/ young ppl nowadays. Saying this makes me feel old, haha.
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Apple Agrees to Improve Working Conditions for Retail Employees Amid Unionization Efforts
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I previously worked at the Walt Disney World Resort and this used to happen all the time. Even in a Right-to-Work state like Florida, the union was able to keep people around who blatantly would break the rules then file a grievance to get their job back.
In my limited experience, I’ve seen more negative with union interference than good.
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Apple should have done this from the start.
If employees feel valued, and are appropriately treated, they usually don’t unionize.
That Apple’s employees feel the need to do so just shows two precepts were not understood or valued within the Apple management culture.
It’s all inauthentic coercive statements from management, firewalls, damage control and stop loss actions now.
If employees feel valued, and are appropriately treated, they usually don’t unionize.
That Apple’s employees feel the need to do so just shows two precepts were not understood or valued within the Apple management culture.
It’s all inauthentic coercive statements from management, firewalls, damage control and stop loss actions now.
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If your talking about the original HP when Bill and Dave ran it you are talking about a special company.
Nice, advocate that Apple commit illegal acts.
Retail schedules are some of the worst in the working world. Corporations want their retail employees to be super flexible and then wonder why no one is happy or wants to work there. They can make scheduling work to rotate weekends off, etc. and still provide flexibility.
What Apple has offered here is better but still not good enough honestly. This team is the team that helps them stay in business around the world and this is the best they can offer!? Apple, are you going to lead the industry or be content with being second/third, etc. best?
What Apple has offered here is better but still not good enough honestly. This team is the team that helps them stay in business around the world and this is the best they can offer!? Apple, are you going to lead the industry or be content with being second/third, etc. best?
I don’t disagree with you in principle, but are the dues “opt-in” or “opt-out”? Is it taboo to opt-out or are there intangible penalties from peers (social, career)? Do you have to renew your opt-out yearly? Are there differing rules for union members and non-union members who pay agency fees? The law says one thing, but real world abidance is another.
Baisley v IAM (2020) asked the court to compel IAM to remove undue burdens in stopping automatic political donations from being collected. It was ultimately tossed because the case law cited in the plaintiff’s argument was deemed not applicable to private sector business.
To your initial argument, yes, the political money is supposed to be “donated”. But given the proper circumstance, a union could automatically collect political donations with the burden of opting out being placed on the employee (union member or non-union). Are they violating the law? No. Are they making it uncomfortable for you to refuse donating? Yes.
Apple would be foolish to follow the advice of anonymous posters on MR forums without checking with their attorneys. But maybe I might be incorrect.
I went to the Apple store for the first time in years to help a colleague buy a new phone. Salespeople give her serious anxiety issues. Dealt with two different sales persons, both tried selling us a phone plan even though we started by stating that we didn't want one. While they were trying to find the phone in the back, the first sales person even went and tried looking up plan options when they discovered the carrier and phone number, were shut down hard as soon as they typed in the phone number and found it was on a "corporate" plan that they cant touch.
Then we were asked about Applecare at least 6 times. When paying they even went and showed us the price with and without Applecare and how it would hardly be noticeable if bought on instalments over 2 years.
10 hours between shifts? I worked clopenings weekly back in 2013. Leave at 11pm and in at 7am. Thanks...
Right. I work in a union and let me tell you my benefits,403b 4% matching, retirement pension, and guaranteed pay increases is worth the $35 per paycheck I pay in union dues. Union dues literally represent 0.07% of ,y monthly salary. Plus I’ll retire with 90% of my pay so (I’m well over 6 figures) so you do the math. Don’t be a sucker. Union rocks.
Yeh, they've only had 46 years to "adapt". The point is they have not adapted & are running scared. Now they are throwing lollies at workers.
It's okay though when management are earning in the millions! Why doesn't Tim Cook talk directly to the employees, rather than sending in hired guns costing more money!!???
This won’t kill the unionization effort because people will always feel personally aggrieved when they feel like they don’t get their way.
They’ll just move the goalposts.
They’ll just move the goalposts.
Absolute nonsense.
There are many unions in Australia and all the employees feel valued & appreciated. Companies work with the Unions on pay rises, leave entitlements, fair work stipulations. You can't just fire someone in Australia if they sneeze wrong like the US.
Unions are there for their members, not there to cause problems, their to alleviate them in the first place as everything is black & white between employee & employer.
Of the major unions in my industry, it’s completely opt in. Heck not sure if there is an automatic option for them to pull money. Think it is completely up to the member to donate the money. I’ll need to do more research there on my union( just joined the company recently).
Of the previous union I was a part of at the old company, don’t think there was an opt in to have money automatically pulled. But then again I didn’t pay attention to it since again it was opt in and had no interest in donating for political causes.
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Firing employees for trying to start a union drive is illegal here in the US.
They would just fire them for “another reason” that is now up to the employee to provide the proof it was actually for them advocating for unionization.
If a shop is unionized, the contract they have with the company rules even if the state is right to work.
The contract dictates how the termination process goes. Usually when people keep their job/get it back is because the company didn’t follow the agreed upon process.
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but if you added up the cost of all the brick and mortar apple stores - their rent and all the personnel costs, etc. it's gotta be a tiny drop in the bucket compared to their revenue right? It seems like they could make those jobs really cushy and it would be barely noticed on the balance sheet.
IDK. Petty sure your best chance of being a pro athlete, a film star, or a CEO is to be the child of one.
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