As Apple celebratesthe 10th day of remembrance of its retail storehouse , a group of Apple Store employee is assembling with a unlike goal . An organization calling itself theApple Retail Workers Unionsent a message to various member of the Apple press on Thursday , includingMacworld , announcing plans to seek to unionize Apple Store employees .
We are launching today to get fellow employee , shoppers , and the world know that we turn in one of the most demanding retail environment while suffering through unjust discussion and compensation among many other various issues … We deserve better . Our time has make out .
Someone responding to e - mail send to the Apple Retail Workers Union — who chose to remain anon. , but claim to exercise at an Apple store “ in the Bay Area”—toldMacworldthat employee from “ some stores in the Pacific Northwest may be talking amongst themselves ” about unionise , and that “ an attempt at [ the ] Alderwood store … is the closest anyone has come to collective action ” at Apple stores .
When pressed for examples of the “ unfair treatment ” cited in the group ’s initial press release , the anonymous respondent suggested that core issues included break schedule , training opportunities , the selection and hiring process for internal candidates for undefendable positions , and wages .
It ’s unclear how serious or large an effort the Apple Retail Workers Union is at this time . The Website linked above is stark . The group’sTwitter pageincludes two tweets , one from January 1 , 2011 , and a second from Thursday . Thegroup ’s Facebook pagecontains a few link posted back in February , and at this authorship has been “ like ” precisely once .
Apple has not yet responded toMacworld’srequest for input .
