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Apple moves to head off unions
I personally am bummed out that Apple is reportedly hiring a union-busting law firm.
Apple appears to be bracing for a unionization effort at its retail stores, after workers in Atlanta started organizing for higher pay.
Union-organizing efforts at Apple are likely to go nationwide as they are at Starbucks and Amazon.
Tim Cook is a progressive CEO who has done some remarkable things with green power, supply chain reforms and supporting a tech-jobs pipeline for underrepresented communities.
His supply chain reforms, for example, all but eliminated child labor and bonded labor practices in Apple's supply chain, indicating he has some sympathy for the little guy.
Cook is a blue-collar guy who received a state-school education and worked for a decade or more on the shop floor (in management), so I had the hope -- perhaps naive -- that he'd support unionization efforts at Apple.
Let's hope he comes around.
-- Leander Kahney, EIC.
Apple is reportedly working with Littler Mendelson, a law firm with a history of helping companies prevent their employees from unionizing. The move comes in the wake of workers at several Apple stores attempting to form unions. If true, Apple is going to do what it can to prevent the thousands of employees at its 250+ retail locations in the United States from organizing for collective bargaining.
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One more thing ...
"The reason I went back to Apple is that I feel like the world would be a better place with Apple in it than not. And it's hard to imagine the world without Apple now." -- Steve Jobs
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