The union wants to bump up base hourly pay to $28 - the minimum needed for a single employee to reasonably afford a one-bedroom apartment, it said. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the living wage for a single parent with one child in the city makes $31 an hour. However, organizers told Bloomberg Law, which first broke news of the petition, that the company's minimum pay rate for retail workers falls below the living wage in Atlanta. 'We are fortunate to have incredible retail team members, and we deeply value everything they bring to Apple,' the spokesman told the Times. Staffers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Station location in Manhattan (pictured) also announced plans to start a union on TuesdayĪpple did not immediately respond to 's requests for comment on the Atlanta outlet's petition.Ī spokesman for the company touted its employee benefits, including health care coverage, paid family leave, tuition reimbursement and a minimum pay rate of $20 per hour for its retail employees. 'Workers have the right under the law to organize to demand better wages, benefits, and working conditions from Apple.' 'Grand Central is an extraordinary store with unique working conditions that make a union necessary to ensure our team has the best possible standards of living,' staffers behind the prospective union said in a statement to their website Monday. The New York group, which first took steps to unionize in February when it voted to affiliate with national labor union Worker's United, is currently seeking signatures from at least 30 percent of staff to qualify for a union election. News of the Atlanta petition comes a day after Apple workers at the store's Grand Central location in Manhattan announced their intention to unionize under Workers United, asking for a minimum wage increase to $30 per hour and better benefits.
And if we have to be first, we will be first.'
'Being first doesn’t matter to us - doing it is what matters to us. 'Somebody has got to be the first to do something,' Bowles said. Just last week, a vote by workers in Bessemer on whether to unionize failed by a more than 2-to-1 margin in a major win for the world's largest online retailer and a blow to organized labor.īut Apple workers in Atlanta weren't phased. He said that employees at Apple's Cumberland Mall location were inspired to organize by Amazon employees attempting to unionize in Bessemer, Alabama earlier this year.
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