{"id":30179,"date":"2024-07-28T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30179"},"modified":"2024-07-28T03:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T08:06:54","slug":"apple-reaches-first-union-contract-with-store-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30179","title":{"rendered":"Apple reaches first union contract with store employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-new-york-staten-island-maryland-baltimore-296f3f71f22352b0f12b9f8d599e7954\">first unionized company store<\/a>&nbsp;in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers\u2019 Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees at a retail location in Maryland, announced Friday evening that it struck a three-year deal with the company that will increase pay by an average of 10% and offer other benefits to workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The agreement must be approved by roughly 85 employees at the store, which is located in the Baltimore suburb of Towson. A vote is scheduled for Aug. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cBy reaching a tentative agreement with Apple, we are giving our members a voice in their futures and a strong first step toward further gains,\u201d the union\u2019s negotiating committee said in a statement. \u201cTogether, we can build on this success in store after store.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The deal came after workers at the store&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/apple-store-maryland-union-strike-960295499eb853d96287164349907088\">authorized a strike in May<\/a>, saying talks with management for more than a year hadn\u2019t yielded \u201csatisfactory outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Maryland store is one of only two unionized Apple sites in the country. Employees there voted in favor of the union in June 2022, a few months before workers at a second Apple location in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, unionized with the Communications Workers of America. The second store has not secured a contract with the tech company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Unions have scored headline-grabbing election wins in recent years, including at an Amazon warehouse in New York City, a Chipotle store in Michigan and hundreds of Starbucks stores across the country. But many of them have not secured contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/apple-reached-union-contract-store-employees-maryland-112332379\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the&nbsp;first unionized company store&nbsp;in the country. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers\u2019 Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees at a retail location in Maryland, announced Friday evening that it struck a three-year deal with the company that will increase pay by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[3889,2345],"class_list":["post-30179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","tag-employees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30181,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions\/30181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}