Staffers at Apple's Grand Central Station store in Manhattan have announced plans to start a union - a move that mirrors recent unionization efforts from workers at companies like Starbucks and Amazon.
If successful, the bid - which seeks better pay and benefits for staff at the New York location - would see the formation of the first-ever retail union by American staff employed by the Cupertino-based tech giant, which boasts 272 locations in the US.
The effort, dubbed 'Fruit Stand Workers United,' seeks benefits such as improved pay and additional time off for staffers at the New York store, organizers said Monday, who are currently collecting signatures to form the union.
The group, which first took steps to unionize in February when it voted to affiliate with national labor union Worker's United, is currently seeking signatures from at least 30 percent of staff to qualify for a union election.
'Grand Central is an extraordinary store with unique working conditions that make a union necessary to ensure our team has the best possible standards of living,' staffers behind the prospective union said in a statement to their website Monday.
'Workers have the right under the law to organize to demand better wages, benefits, and working conditions from Apple.'
In their statement, organizers cited 'extraordinary times with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and once-in-a-generation consumer price inflation' as reasons behind the decision to seek union protection.
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