They haven’t started bargaining yet. They get the standard stuff.
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Apple Employees at Unionized Maryland Store File Labor Board Complaint After Being Denied Benefits
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They haven’t started bargaining yet. They get the standard stuff.
This was the only Apple Store for years that I would have to drive to. The dealers were a poor substitute until Apple killed them off. Now we have one closer to us now and never visit Towson.
File under “You cannot have your cake and eat it too…”
anyone who disagrees is a hypocrite using apple products. unions are liberal organizations, just like apple
Right… not stock buybacks, executive bonuses, profit windfalls being dispersed to shareholders… it’s always the workers that raise the prices.
Lol. Made my day. 👏🏻 let them negotiate they wanted the union.
Then they should use their legitimate carrots and sticks and stop whining to the courts and the government about mistreatment. They wanted collective bargaining and that is what they now have. Obviously the “leaders” are not getting the job done for their membership here.
Trillion dollar company? But not that store records trillion dollar sales. Have to be fair!!!!
Retail always see each store revenue and performance, if you know the true, retail doesn’t make money as what you may think.
Unions just make things turning sour, greed, and old fashion
then ceo will be fired and board will find someone who would make a great profit.
public company = duty to shareholders. don't like it? go private. until then, board will keep CEO in check to make a profit for shareholders. tim cook suddenly slashing profits for workers = instant replacement by the board. it's a simple fact of being publicly traded company.
The US automakers had reasonably priced cars and trucks for decades with a union workforce. It was only in the late 1980’s and after NAFTA was signed did they start shipping jobs overseas. The irony of all ironies however, wasn’t that they didn’t make a good profit with union labor, they wanted to make *bigger* profits with cheap labor.
This is how collective bargaining works. If they wanted the perks and benefits that the non-union workers get then they should not have joined the union or they should have had their union negotiate to have those benefits to begin with. This seems more like a failure of the union's part. I honestly don't think they will get very far as they don't have very much leverage and I doubt benefit parity with non-union workers was a staple of their contract. Most union contracts are for 3-4 years and mid-contract changes and re-negotiations are very rare so I think they are stuck with the deal they signed for a bit.
100% this. It's one of the major reasons I vote no on any school funding measure put on the ballot. All they demand is money, money, money and have little to show for it. Teachers these days are just about worthless
Having worked at apple retail for over 7 years… there was nothing open or collaborative, lmao. It was “fall in line or leave.”
Have to laugh at anyone bashing unions here. The ONLY reason Apple is offering these benefits is due to the unionisation of these two stores, if there was no pressure/threat of others following suit, Apple would never have offered these incentives.
Ideally, that is how it should work. Have you heard of employee-owned companies? The employees are the shareholders. They reap the fruits of their labor. Silicon Valley emulates this somewhat with employee stock options.
You unionize when management is your enemy. In an employee-owned company, you don’t need a union. You are management.
I have a bad feeling that one employee mentioned unionizing, and the rest just went along with it, not knowing what that exactly means. If you unionized your wages and your benefits are negotiated by the union, meaning you do not get a choice, the union gets a choice. Plus you pay them fees to do this every pay period.
Absolutely, these people will simply waste 90% of what we give them. I have some teacher friends who are doing their best but between the corrupt gov’t and unions, there’s too much money being funneled away from things that are important. Also, the profession has been overrun with ideologues.
In NYC, they spent something like $250K on drag queen shows for k-6. Bill DeBlasio, the former mayor, wanted to eliminate test scores for 3 prestigious high schools because he thought there were too many Asians and he wanted the schools to be more “diverse” (ie, discriminate based on race).
In Camden NJ (one of the poorest cities in America) they were given $2 BILLION to fix their school system. Most of that money disappeared and to this day no one knows where most of that money went.
Which is exactly what they’ve done and the Union has filled the complaint.
Apple could have given it to all stores, by making the offer to the union. But they deliberately didn’t.
Today if Tim Cook decided that their margins are cut from 25% to 17%, board will fire Tim Cook and replace him with someone who can keep the 25%.
So while you may insinuate that Apple can stop making *bigger* profits, in reality, Apple can't do that for as long as Apple is controlled by shareholders and the board.
I hope the NLRB goes after them hard core. Tired of US companies deciding that labor laws and union protections don't apply to them. Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, they're all working from the same union-busting playbook. It worked for them in the last administration because they turned a blind eye, here's hoping the NLRB has some guts this time around. Some of y'all act like you've never worked a retail job in your lives. The idea that forming a union is so offensive to some folks here is beyond me. I wish my workplace was union, I'd sign a card in a hot second.