Activists at the Apple shop in Towson Town Center, Maryland, assert that the firm isn’t being completely truthful about withholding benefits from the location’s employees. Workers claim it is challenging for them to argue for their benefits as the company’s first retail store to unionize in the US pushes for contract negotiations.
The negotiating committee expresses disappointment in a letter to Tim Cook that the business would not provide additional health and education benefits to workers at the site that are being rolled out to other retail employees. The union claims that by claiming that employees would have to negotiate certain benefits into their contracts, Apple has been disseminating “misinformation.”
“There is crucial context missing in this communication around the process of change within a unionized store and the fact that we can, and we will include these (and any new benefits) in our collective bargaining contract proposal,” says the letter, which you can read in full below. However, the union also claims that Apple has made it difficult to bargain for those benefits by not sharing “any details” about them.
IAM CORE, a union affiliated with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, won the June union election by a ratio of almost two to one. CORE is an acronym for Coalition of Organized Retail Employees.
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