Employees at the Apple store in New York’s Grand Central Station have begun the process of forming a union, which, if successful, will be the first to be created by the company’s employees in the US, according to the employees’ own website.
Under the slogan “Fruit Stand Workers United”, this group of workers has started collecting signatures: they must convince at least 30% of the employees of the store to formally request the organization of a vote on the formation of a union.
The workers are affiliated with the Workers United union, which has organized several Starbucks employees in recent months.
“Grand Central is an amazing store with unique working conditions that make it necessary to establish a union which will guarantee that our team will have the best possible standard of living in a period full of challenges between the pandemic covid-19 and the unprecedented for the generation “of rising prices,” they wrote on the website.
The group of workers states that it wishes at this time not to reveal the identity of those who took the initiative.
If they achieve their goal, the employees in this Apple store will follow them to Starbucks stores and Amazon warehouses that have decided to join a union.
According to the Washington Post, which cites employees who wished to remain anonymous as they feared losing their jobs, employees at at least three other Apple stores in the US have begun similar processes to form a union.
Following the formation of a union in two Starbucks cafes in December in Buffalo, North America, employees at more than 160 other stores in the chain have applied to vote on the same request.
In New York, Amazon warehouse workers made the surprise move earlier this month by voting in favor of creating the first union of employees of the e-commerce giant.
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