The vote means workers at the Towson, Md., store plan to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) once a contract is ratified. Three Apple employees said the union drive lost some supporters amid a corporate campaign to persuade workers not to organize. “They got a lot of people to waver … they definitely pulled some people that we thought were originally supporters,” said Eric Brown, who works at the Towson Apple store. “We’ll certainly see Apple workers across the country reaching out to these workers to learn more about how to do it,” she said. Apple Store employees in New York said this year that some workers were taken aside by managers and given a speech about the pitfalls of unionization there.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2022 16:19 UTC