(CNN Business) President Joe Biden said he was "proud" of Apple's retail workers in Towson, Maryland, who voted this weekend to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant's US stores. "I'm proud of them," the President told reporters from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Monday. "Workers have a right to determine under what conditions they're going to work or not work." Amazon AMZN Starbucks SBUX Biden, who has also recently met with union organizers fromand, added that "everybody is better off, including the final product" because of labor unions. Organizers are calling their union the Apple Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, or AppleCORE for short, and have garnered support from the larger International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trade union.

Source: CNN June 21, 2022 09:16 UTC