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CTOnews.com, Oct. 16, according to Bloomberg reporter Josh Eidelson, Apple Store employees in Apple's Pennsylvania Square have voted to form a union. The Oklahoma City-based Apple Store store is the second Apple Apple Store store to be unionized in the United States after a store in Towson, Maryland, earlier this year.

It is reported that after this week's election for all employees in the store, employees voted 56 to 32 in favor of joining the American Communications Workers (CWA) union. The union now needs to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board.

An Apple spokesman shared the following statement with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in response to the unionisation of employees at Apple's Pennsylvania Plaza store.

"We believe that our open, direct and collaborative relationship with valuable team members is the best way to provide a great experience for our customers and our team. We are proud to offer generous rewards and special benefits to our team members. Our starting salary rate in the United States has increased by 45% since 2018, and we have made many major improvements to industry-leading benefits, including new education and family support programs. "

Joining the union enables Apple Store store employees to obtain more favorable working conditions and other benefits through collective bargaining.

CTOnews.com learned that earlier this week, Apple announced plans to provide additional educational benefits and improved health care for retail employees in some states, but it was reported that union workers at Towson stores would not receive these benefits automatically and would have to negotiate through their union, the International Union of Mechanics and Aerospace Workers (IAM), as part of a collective bargaining agreement with Apple.

Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's retail chief, tried to dissuade store employees from joining a union in a video broadcast at a company meeting, and in the past few months, Apple has been accused of adopting an anti-union strategy. Earlier this year, a vote to form a union was reportedly withdrawn at an Apple store in Atlanta after Apple intimidated its employees.

"our relationship is based on openness, cooperation and direct contact, which I think could fundamentally change if a store is represented by a union under a collective bargaining agreement," O'Brien said in one of the videos. I'm worried about what it would mean to put another organization in the middle of our relationship. "

In its unionization efforts last year, Apple raised starting salaries, improved benefits and solved other workplace problems.

Apple has more than 270 Apple Store retail stores in the United States and more than 520 around the world.

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