Posted18 avril 2022, 20:50
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United StatesEmployees of an Apple store in New York try to form a union
Employees began collecting signatures from shop workers at Grand Central Station. If the project succeeds, it would be a first for the firm in the United States.
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The group of employees of the Apple store located in Grand Central Station, Manhattan, must convince at least 30% of the employees of the store to officially request a vote approving or rejecting the creation of a union.
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Employees of the Apple store located in the legendary Grand Central station in New York have begun the process of creating a union, according to a website launched by these employees. If the project is successful, it would be a first for a company store in the United States.
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Under the banner “Fruit Stand Workers United”, this group has begun to collect signatures: it must convince at least 30% of the store’s employees to officially request the organization of a vote approving or rejecting the creation of a union in the establishment. They are affiliated with Workers United, a banner under which several Starbucks cafes have organized in recent months, itself affiliated with the powerful service sector union SEIU.
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The founders of the movement remain anonymous
“Grand Central is an extraordinary store with unique working conditions that make a union necessary to ensure our team has the best possible standard of living in what has proven to be an extraordinary time between the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and unprecedented price inflation for our generation”, is it written on the site.
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The group explains that it wants to protect the identity of the employees who launched the initiative for the time being. If successful, Apple would join Starbucks and Amazon on the list of multinationals facing a U.S. unionization drive. According to the Washington Post, citing employees wishing to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs, employees of at least three other Apple stores in the country are in the process of organizing.
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Snowball effect
After the creation of a union at two Starbucks coffee shops in December in Buffalo, in the north of the country, employees of more than 160 establishments have since submitted files for the organization of a vote. In New York, warehouse workers Amazon created the surprise at the beginning of April in voting by majority in favor of the creation of a union within the warehouse, a first for the group in the United States.
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(AFP)
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