Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
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Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#2Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#3Sounds like Apple won this no? They prevented the union, which has given up, and their only punishment is to be told to stop doing something they should not have been doing anyway.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#4Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.
"They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world."
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Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#5Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.
My MBA mostly pointed them to having the best marketing campaigns.
I never once read or had a discussion about the quality of the employees.
I suppose employees are the people making the marketing plans, but these aren't the people unionizing.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#6Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.
Yes, but no need to exaggerate. My country has no Apple Stores and Apple is really popular here so I doubt they're key.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#7Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.
My MBA mostly pointed them to having the best marketing campaigns. I never once read or had a discussion about the quality of the employees. I suppose employees are the people making the marketing plans, but these aren't the people unionizing.
A huge part of the Apple marketing are their retail locations and "Geniuses." A great deal of the reason I bought my first Apple product was because of an employee in an Apple Store.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
My MBA mostly pointed them to having the best marketing campaigns. I never once read or had a discussion about the quality of the employees. I suppose employees are the people making the marketing plans, but these aren't the people unionizing.
A huge part of the Apple marketing are their retail locations and "Geniuses." A great deal of the reason I bought my first Apple product was because of an employee in an Apple Store.
apple were massively popular in canada long before we had any apple stores, and in fact I've never been to an apple store and still own apple products. I don't think what you're saying is true.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#9Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.
Unionizing is hard. Apple blatantly roughs up organizing efforts and after months of nothing, all they get is a 'cease and desist' order.
Re: Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
#10Sounds like Apple won this no? They prevented the union, which has given up, and their only punishment is to be told to stop doing something they should not have been doing anyway.
While it does say the certain stores, like St. Louis, have given up due to Apple's antagonism, it also says: "Union efforts are slowly gaining ground at Apple stores across the country."
Precedent like this can help future efforts in other places, at the very least. And in general, little back and forth events like this is maybe the best we can hope for in this world where actual worker leadership/autonomism is farther away than Mars.
But yeah, at the same time, you can't help thinking still that Apple could probably just do whatever it wants indefinitely, and easily absorb these slaps on the wrist when they come about.