Shoppers walk past an Apple Store at Franklin Park Mall during Black Friday. Shoppers go to stores to take advantage of Black Friday sales during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A union vote at an Apple store at the Cumberland Mall location in Atlanta is in doubt after the union trying to organize the retail workers withdrew its request for an election.
The union, Communications Workers of America, alleged in a statement that Apple has violated labor laws and made a fair election impossible. In addition, CWA said that there are rising numbers of Covid cases at the store, which could affect the vote due to workers’ health concerns.
The vote was scheduled for next week. If successful, it would have been the first unionized U.S. Apple store.
The development is a setback for Apple workers’ efforts to unionize at the company’s retail stores in the U.S. In addition to the Cumberland Mall location, there are at least three other Apple stores with workers holding public union drives. A union vote for workers at a store in Maryland is scheduled for June 15.
“An overwhelming majority of the workers at the Cumberland Mall Store announced that they were forming a union in April and requested recognition from the company,” a CWA representative said in a statement. “Since then, Apple has conducted a systematic, sophisticated campaign to intimidate them and interfere with their right to form a union,” a “behavior [that] violates U.S. law,...
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