Workers at an Apple store in Maryland have voted to join a union, making theirs the first of the company’s over 270 stores in the United States to be unionized.
More than 100 workers in Towson near Baltimore “have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,” the union said in a release.
An initial tally of the vote by employees at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland, came in at 65 for and 33 against. Voting had begun on June 15 and concluded on Saturday.
The employees are seeking to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, a trade union representing over 600,000 active and retired members in North America, in the aerospace, defense, airlines, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries….