Second Apple Store gets a union election date
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YWBZ)
Employees at Apple's Towson Town Center may soon be voting on whether to unionize. | Image: Apple Employees at Apple's Towson Town Center store in Maryland will begin their union election on June 15th, after filing a request with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) earlier this month. The store is the second to schedule an election. In April, employees from an Apple Store in Atlanta filed their own petition to hold a union election, which Apple recently agreed to. That vote is set to start on June 2nd.
The election in Maryland will take place over four days, and voting will be in-person.
On May 3rd, organizers at the store announced their intentions to unionize with the IAMAW. The group of employees calls itself AppleCORE, with CORE standing for Coalition of Organized Retail Employees. According to a report from The Washington...