Employees at multiple Apple stores across the U.S. have taken steps to form unions and bargain for higher pay and better benefits.
at the technology giant to officially file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election.
"Employees say that they face low wages in a very high-stress work environment that includes persistent exposure to COVID-19 and other challenges," CBS News tech reporter Dan Patterson said. Apple salespeople also"want to advance in the same or a very similar way as executives or people who work in offices at Apple," Patterson said."They say they're treated often like second-class citizens, even though they work hard."A vote in favor of unionizing at one store could encourage employees at other Apple stores to follow suit.
"This is part of a larger trend that includes technology stores and companies like Starbucks and Amazon — where warehouse employees have unionized all in the last several months," Patterson said. "You have to think that this vote could potentially empower not just other Apple stores to unionize, but across the spectrum when it comes to tech and other retail outlets," Patterson said.
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