Workers at an Apple store in Maryland have announced their first steps to unionize, becoming the third store to start such an effort, setting up a potential labor battle with Apple, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) confirmed on May 3 that they have been coordinating with organizers at the Towson Mall location, near Baltimore, to help them form a union and claim that they have a majority of the employee signatures to assist in scheduling an election.
The union and the employee activists call their new union the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (AppleCORE) and sent Apple CEO Tim Cook a letter, informing him of their decision to organize a union, claiming they have “a solid majority” of support from their coworkers.
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