Workers at Atlanta Apple store file to hold first U.S. union election By Reuters

By Julia Love and Tiyashi Datta

(Reuters) -Employees at an Apple Inc (NASDAQ:) retailer in Atlanta on Wednesday filed a petition to carry a union election, searching for to turn out to be the corporate’s first U.S. retailer to unionize amid a wave of labor exercise at different main companies.

The hassle on the Apple retailer in Cumberland Mall is backed by the Communications Employees of America, in accordance with a information launch issued by the union and staff concerned within the effort. Greater than 70% of the greater than 100 staff eligible to hitch the union – in gross sales, technical, inventive and operations roles – signed playing cards expressing a need to prepare, the union stated.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Nationwide Labor Relations Board confirmed that the company’s Atlanta workplace obtained the union petition on Wednesday. If sure circumstances are met, the NLRB works with the union and the employer to rearrange an election.

“We work onerous at Apple as a result of we actually imagine within the merchandise and the corporate and we wish to make it possible for each Apple employee is ready to afford high quality housing and fundamental dwelling bills,” Elli Daniels, an Apple employee who’s a part of the union effort, stated in a press release.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

The information of the petition was first reported by Bloomberg Regulation.

Unionization efforts are gaining momentum at some giant U.S. firms together with Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:) and Starbucks Corp (NASDAQ:).

Apple is understood for its reticent tradition, however final yr some present and former staff started criticizing the corporate’s working circumstances on-line, utilizing the hashtag #AppleToo.