Workers at an Apple store in a Baltimore suburb have voted to join a union, making theirs the first of the company’s more than 270 U.S. stores to unionize.
More than 100 workers in Towson, Maryland, “have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,” or IAM, the union said in a statement.
An initial tally of the vote by Towson employees was 65–33. Voting had begun on June 15 and concluded on June 18.
The employees will be part of a trade union that represents more than 600,000 active and retired members in North America, in aerospace, defense, airlines, railroad, transit, health care, automotive, and other industries….