Three other stores have taken steps to unionize, although one in Atlanta withdrew its election petition in May.
We're doing this because we see longevity at Apple." "We're doing this because we love our jobs. "Being part of a tech company this big, it's very easy to be intimidated and come off as ungrateful, which is something that we want to make known: that we are not ungrateful," said Tyra Reeder, a technical specialist at the Towson Apple store. stores happened on June 18, when workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65 to 33 to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The first union win among Apple's 270-plus U.S. The union movement at Apple stores is progressing at a slower pace. What's more, the Biden administration is pro-union. And there are lots of jobs available without enough applicants to fill them. Companies that already had healthy profits before the pandemic made even more money after lockdowns. In addition to the pandemic conditions, numerous other factors have collided to create what labor experts call a perfect storm for organizing. And honestly, it has to go to better pay, livable wage for everybody." "It made a lot of workers that continued to work during the pandemic reevaluate what is most important to them. "It has to do with the pandemic," said Laura Garza, a barista who helped organize her New York City-based Starbucks location, which voted to unionize in April. "The CEOs of all of these big companies are horrified by what happened at Starbucks and they're thinking this is what we want to avoid at all costs," Logan said.ĬNBC talked to workers inside the unions forming at Starbucks and Apple about why the movements are gaining traction now. He said their level of enthusiasm is causing a rush of panic elsewhere in the corporate world. "A lot of it is concentrated amongst young workers, sometimes college-educated young workers, often working in sort of low-paying service sector jobs: overworked, underpaid, overeducated workers," Logan said. Eight months later, about 45 elections have failed, and more than 200 of Starbucks' 9,000 U.S. Within six weeks, about 20 other stores filed for elections. In one example of the benefits a big union can bring, Workers United has created a $1 million fund to support Starbucks workers who lose wages as a result of organizing activities like striking. The wave at Starbucks started in December with a store in Buffalo, New York, where workers voted 19 to eight to join the large, established Workers United union. "And yet they did, and in the case of Starbucks Workers United, they won over and over and over again."
"There's really no rational world in which the Amazon Labor Union or Starbucks Workers United should win," said John Logan, a labor and employment studies professor at San Francisco State University. First-ever unions have also formed at an Apple store in Maryland, a Google Fiber contractor, REI, Trader Joe's, Kickstarter and Activision Blizzard.
As of Wednesday, 209 Starbucks stores have officially voted to unionize according to the National Labor Relations Board.
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