![]() The women’s apparel brand has been part of the Towson mall’s 100,000-square-foot luxury “Crate & Barrel” wing, which opened in 2008 and now includes retailers such as Tiffany & Co., Sur la table and the Apple store. We’re saying farewell to our Towson Town Center store on January 27th, but we can’t wait to see you soon,” the retailer said in an email to customers, urging them to shop at the brand’s store in The Mall in Columbia. “Thanks for all the fun times and great style. National retailers have been closing stores by the thousands as more people shop online and price competition has intensified. announced in June that it plans to close up to 667 of its stores, which include the Ann Taylor, Loft, Dressbarn, Lane Bryant and Justice brands among others, over the next two years, blaming the rise of online shopping. However there are media reports that Apple is working with well-known anti-union lawyers from Littler Mendelson to respond to organisers in Atlanta.Ann Taylor will close its store in Towson Town Center in Towson on Saturday, the retailer said. “We are pleased to offer very strong compensation and benefits for full time and part time employees, including health care, tuition reimbursement, new parental leave, paid family leave, annual stock grants and many other benefits,” Apple was quoted by CNBC as saying in a statement. If they succeed, they will be represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. ![]() However this week union campaigners at a second Amazon facility lost a vote when staff at the company’s sorting centre (LDJ5), voted 618 to 380 against joining the grassroots Amazon Labor Union (ALU).īesides Apple’s Atlanta and the the New York City locations, retail staff at the Towson Mall location in Maryland are also holding a union drive, the Washington Post has reported. Union driveīig businesses in the United States are seeing renewed interest in trade unions, amid a rising tide of workplace activism as staff demand better pay and working conditions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and rising inflation.Īmazon for example for the first time in it’s nearly 28-year history, saw staff at the JFK8 warehouse in the New York City borough of Staten Island vote for organised labour. Organisers at the Cumberland store say their demands include cost of living adjustments and “real living wages” for employees, as well as increased access to career development and more diverse management. The stipulated agreement between the NLRB and Apple means that there won’t need to be a hearing before the election is scheduled and moves the process along faster, a CWA representative told CNBC. ![]() The election will take place in person and will run from Thursday, 2 June through Saturday, 4 June, CNBC reported. If the vote is successful, the Atlanta Apple store would become the first unionised Apple retail outlet in the United States. Organisers previously told CNBC more than 70 percent of the store’s employees signed cards expressing interest in unionising. In order to be certified, more than 50 percent of the store’s around 100 eligible employees will need to vote to be represented by the Communications Workers of America. The FSWU however are still in the first step process of collecting signatures from workers.īut staff at the Apple store location in the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta look to be more advanced in the process, after they filed for a union drive in April.Īccording to CNBC, they will begin casting their votes on 2 June. ![]() Organisers calling themselves the Fruit Stand Workers United (FSWU) were said to be working for Apple retail workers at the company’s flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan. Last month it was reported that staff at Apple’s flagship store in New York were taking the first steps to organise a trade union. Apple has become the latest tech firm to face trade union pressure, with Atlanta store staff set to hold a vote on the matter.ĬNBC reported that it has reviewed a NLRB filing which showed that Apple store staff in Atlanta will vote from 2 June to potentially form the first unionised Apple retail location. ![]()
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