According to a document provided to the verge, Apple has reached an agreement with Apple store employees in Atlanta to arrange for a union election on June 2** If the vote is successful, these employees will become the first to join the Union in the company.
Employees who will vote next month work in the apple store at the Cumberland mall in Atlanta. According to the verge report, they were the first batch of employees to apply for union election in April, although other Apple store employees also have their own union activities, including those working in the apple store at New York Central railway station and Towson town center in Maryland.
According to the verge, Apple employees who promoted unionization issued an open letter explaining what they were looking for, including higher pay, better career development options and the implementation of health and safety agreements.
Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Other technology companies have also formed trade unions. Google employees began to form the alphabet workers' Union in early 2021, although its roster of more than 900 members accounts for less than 1% of the total number of alphabet employees of the parent company. These efforts spread to a group of contractors in Missouri, who became the first Google fiber workers to join the union as early as March and signed with AWU.
Amazon warehouse workers had several major union activities in April. Workers in Stanton Island, New York, voted to become the company's first successful unionized American workers, while workers in Alabama seemed unable to unionize, although hundreds of contested votes made the final decision uncertain. A few days ago, another unionization vote at the Staten Island warehouse also failed.
Large technology companies continue to resist unionization - Amazon is seeking a re vote for unionization of the Staten Island warehouse - but the continued efforts of Apple retail employees show that more collective bargaining is coming.