The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.
Will today’s unions invest big-time in the young workers now beginning to rebuild American labor? Or will they remain AWOL and ensure the movement’s continued decline?
Over the course of the pandemic, the vast majority of essential workers were women. The vast majority of those who lost their jobs in the pandemic were women. And now the vast majority of those organizing their workplaces are women.
Despite years of employer attacks, unions still have vast resources at their disposal. This moment of worker upsurge is the time to use those assets to fund aggressive organizing.
The union alleges that Apple has violated labor laws and made a fair election impossible. A vote was scheduled for next week. If successful, it would have been the first unionized Apple store in the United States.
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Nationwide, organizers are hoping to connect student activism on undergraduate campuses like Grinnell to the broader national labor movement, which is growing thanks to the efforts of young people at major chains like Starbucks and Amazon.
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