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   Workers at an Apple store outside Baltimore have formed the tech   
   giant’s first retail union in the U.S., marking another high-   
   profile victory for the labor movement this year.   
      
   Employees at the company’s Towson Center store voted 65 to 33 in   
   favor of joining the International Association of Machinists and   
   Aerospace Workers, according to a vote count conducted Saturday   
   by the National Labor Relations Board. Board officials have not   
   certified the results yet to make them official.   
      
   The union’s success at Apple shows the worker organizing wave   
   that recently hit Starbucks, Amazon and REI may continue to   
   spread to other big-name employers. Many workers who have felt   
   mistreated during the pandemic are seeking out union   
   representation amid the unusually tight labor market, with the   
   labor board seeing a noticeable uptick in election petitions   
   this year compared to 2021.   
      
   The president of the machinists union, Robert Martinez Jr.,   
   immediately called upon Apple to start negotiating a contract,   
   and praised the Apple workers for what he called a "historic   
   victory."   
      
   'They made a huge sacrifice for thousands of Apple employees   
   across the nation who had all eyes on this election," he said.   
      
   The workers in Towson had been organizing with the machinists   
   union under the name Apple Coalition of Organized Retail   
   Employees, or AppleCORE. They sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim   
   Cook last month saying they had “come together as a union   
   because of a deep love of our role as workers within the company   
   and out of care for the company itself.”   
      
   They alluded to other workers at “large companies in the service   
   and tech sectors” that have chosen to unionize, saying they were   
   proud to follow in those workers’ footsteps. More than 100   
   Starbucks stores have unionized since late last year, and the   
   first Amazon union in the U.S. was established in New York City   
   in April.   
      
   “The union’s success at Apple shows the worker organizing wave   
   that recently hit Starbucks, Amazon and REI may continue to   
   spread to other big-name employers.”   
      
   Those companies have strongly opposed their workers’ desire to   
   form a union, and Apple appears to be taking a similar position,   
   likely concerned that a successful union bid will quickly spread   
   to other stores around the country like it has at Starbucks.   
      
   Store managers have urged workers not to unionize in meetings   
   with staff, and the company has hired the same union-avoidance   
   law firm as Starbucks, Littler Mendelson, to combat the effort.   
   Meanwhile, a company executive released a video to tens of   
   thousands of workers to meant to discourage unionization, The   
   Verge reported . “I worry about what it would mean to put   
   another organization in the middle of our relationship,” said   
   the executive, Deirdre O’Brien.   
      
   Other Apple retail workers have recently launched organizing   
   campaigns as well. The Communications Workers of America union   
   filed a petition to hold an election for an Apple store in an   
   Atlanta mall but withdrew it weeks later, something unions   
   sometimes do when they believe they’ve lost the necessary   
   support.   
      
   CWA is also organizing workers at Apple’s Grand Central store in   
   New York City, where workers are seeking to hold a vote of their   
   own.   
      
   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-store-workers-maryland-   
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