Unionized workers at an Apple store in Townson, Md., are negotiating with the tech giant to add a tipping scheme to all in-store credit-card purchases. These unionized workers also want more holidays and additional vacations days - and both with better pay. The bargaining unit also asked for 10% pay raises and an extended bereavement leave from 10 days per occurrence to up to 45 days per year, and asked that the policy include pets and close friends. The tipping proposal is just part of the negotiations CORE is trying to make with the tech giant. Nevertheless, the stratospheric prices of items for sale at Apple stores, running in the hundreds if not thousands of dollars - and the high cost of repairing items at the Genius Bar - point to tips of $20 and up. “We do not see tips as a major way of generating income,” CORE wrote.ĬORE tweeted that it instead sought to “create an acceptable system that allows the occasional customer the ability to reward our team for their hard work” without the possibility of its members losing their jobs. Tips would be available to the store’s employees on all transactions, which would throw out Apple’s current policy where Apple employees who accept a tip are fired.ĬORE clarified its plans for the “controversial” tipping scheme in a Twitter thread on Thursday. The labor union is in talks with Apple about a tipping system in which customers paying with a card would be prompted to tip 3%, 5%, a custom amount or none at all upon checkout, Bloomberg reported. The staffers at Apple’s Towson, Md., location were the first to unionize when they formed The Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE) in 2022.
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The tech giant has not voluntarily recognized the store’s proposed union, said DiMaria, of the machinists union, which represents about 600,000 active and retired members in the aerospace, defense, airlines, railroad, transit, health care, automotive and other industries. “With the rise of inflation, it’s kind of hard paying student loans and bills and groceries every week,” he said. Milligan, a 24-year-old Towson resident, said he would like to see a union focus on compensation, as well. Because he has family members with immune problem, he worried at the time about the store opening prematurely. The store closed and reopened several times amid waves of COVID-19 in 2020, and some store workers got sick. He began to see the need for another layer of worker protection during the pandemic, he said.
He said he is in favor of unionizing the store “just to make sure everyone is compensated correctly, making sure everyone is cared for correctly.”
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The Towson employees are scheduled to vote in person between June 15 and June 18.Īt his full-time job at the Towson Apple store, Julian Milligan not only helps customers make purchases but also works on iPhone and Mac device repairs and helps customers troubleshoot their Apple products. Two other Apple stores, one in Atlanta and one in New York City’s Grand Central Station, have launched similar unionization efforts.Īpple workers in Atlanta requested an election through the National Labor Relations Board, and workers at the Towson store became the second to seek an election earlier this month.
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