Nuked Workers at the Cumberland Mall Apple store will no longer hold a union election in June, according to a report from Bloomberg. The communications workers of America withdrew the request to hold an election because’Apple’s repeated violations of the National Labor Relations Act have made a free and fair election impossible’.
Workers at the Towson town center store are set to start voting in person on June 15th. The vote would’ve been the first union election at a US Apple store had it gone through. Now, that title will go to a store in Maryland, barring that petition also being withdrawn.
Apple has faced allegations of union-busting in the run up to the election. The firm hired anti-union lawyers and has circulated anti-union messages. The CWA also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
Pay was at the top of the list of priorities for the organizers at the Atlanta Apple store, published in an open letter last month.
Apple’s covid safety policies were also mentioned in the organizers’ open letter, which demanded that the company get employee input on its health policies and work harder to enforce its existing safety regulations.
Organizers filed to hold an election in April. More than 70 percent of workers had signed cards supporting the move. Unionization efforts seemed to have broad support from the store’s employees.
