The labor group that helped orchestrate the first successful unionization campaign at an Apple Inc. store said it’s eager to begin negotiating with the company and looks to build on the breakthrough elsewhere.
“The biggest thing for us to do now is to get Apple to the table and talk to them about who we are and what we want for our union members,” said David Sullivan, a general vice president at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which prevailed in a union vote last weekend at a store in Towson, Maryland.
Sullivan declined to discuss specific plans for additional stores, but said the union has a “complete strategic plan” in place. “We’ve received phone calls from all over the country,” he said.
In a vote announced by the National Labor Relations Board on Saturday, employees in Towson voted to join the IAM by a roughly 2-to-1 margin. The bargaining unit, calling itself the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, or CORE, includes about 100 workers. President Joe Biden applauded the move, saying “workers have a right to determine under what conditions they are gonna work or not work.”
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