Apple Hit With Unfair Labor Practice Charge for Refusing to Transfer Unionized Towson Workers

The IAM Union representing Apple employees successful Towson, Maryland contiguous said that it is filing an Unfair Labor Practice complaint [PDF] against Apple with the National Labor Relations Board. The national is accusing Apple of unlawful favoritism against unionized workers.


Earlier this month, Apple announced plans to close the Towson Apple Store alongside 2 different Apple locations successful Connecticut and California. The Towson store was the archetypal Apple retail determination to unionize successful the U.S. backmost successful 2022.

With astir store closures, employees are relocated automatically to adjacent stores, but Apple said the national rules astatine the Towson determination prevented it from moving the workers to different stores. Apple alternatively said that Towson employees are "eligible to use for unfastened roles astatine Apple successful accordance with the corporate bargaining agreement."

The IAM Union said astatine the clip that it was "outraged" by Apple's decision, and that determination was thing successful the statement that prevented employees from being relocated. IAM said Apple's assertion was false, and that it raised "serious concerns" that the closure was a "cynical effort to bust the union."

In today's filing, the IAM Union complained that Apple allowed employees astatine 2 non-union stores to transportation to different locations, but forced Towson employees to reapply for positions done the aforesaid process arsenic outer candidates.
"This is astir whether workers are treated reasonably nether the instrumentality oregon punished for exercising their rights," said IAM Union International President Brian Bryant. "Apple is denying union-represented workers the aforesaid opportunities it is giving to others -- and doing truthful due to the fact that these workers chose to organize. That is discrimination, and it is precisely what national labour instrumentality is designed to prevent."
The national has asked Apple to reverse its determination and springiness Towson workers the aforesaid accidental to transportation to different retail locations.

The 3 stores that Apple is closing are located successful struggling buying malls that are dilatory shutting down and losing ft traffic.
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