Anti-union talks continue at Apple Store in Reston, VA - AppleInsider

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Anti-union messages are being promoted during regular meetings astatine the Apple Reston store successful Virginia, successful what seems to beryllium a bid to effort and forestall further unionization from taking place.

As Apple Store employees proceed discussing the anticipation of unionizing, and with a fewer stores unionizing oregon taking steps successful that direction, Apple is keen to fend disconnected different efforts to bash the same. In 1 case, this seemingly includes attempts to dissuade workers from unionizing successful the regular download meetings.

In emails sent from an worker to AppleInsider, Apple is said to person utilized the mandatory regular download from Saturday greeting to beforehand the thought that unions aren't the mode forward. The gathering was required and for immoderate employees clocked successful astatine the clip it occurred.

The speech was described arsenic "shaming" store workers for talking astir unions successful the archetypal place. "If you are having concealed talks astir things, it's astir apt not a bully happening to beryllium doing," store absorption allegedly told workers.

There was besides a treatment connected however corporate bargaining made it tougher for workers to get benefits, and warned that promotions would go seniority-based alternatively than show oregon merit-based. One expected analogy claimed "It's similar trying to get meal with a radical of 30 people. It's hard to marque a determination and thing gets done."

The store person is besides said to person declared "it's ineligible for national reps to similar to you astir what unions tin bash to get you to join."

It is besides claimed workers were told they could beryllium forced to articulation the national adjacent if they voted against it, which is mendacious for states similar Virginia. There are allegations that unit are besides warned that speech astir immoderate laws are seemingly lies to instrumentality workers into joining the union.

This would not beryllium the archetypal clip that Apple went aft unionization attempts astatine the Apple Reston store. In August, Apple Market Leaders visited the outlet and utilized the closure of Starbucks stores that had precocious unionized arsenic antagonistic examples.

Elsewhere successful the empire, Apple had antecedently circulated anti-union talking points to store managers successful May, portion successful April, it hired lawyers known for busting unions.