Apple Just Closed its First Unionized Store

In 2022, an Apple Store outside of Baltimore became the first in the U.S. to unionize, fueled by worker frustrations over how they were treated during the pandemic. Two years later, they won a contract that enshrined protections that seemed designed to enable other workers to follow in their footsteps. The contract secured a cap on the number of temporary workers Apple could hire and carved out a process by which the union could pursue cases on behalf of workers who they believed had been unfairly disciplined or dismissed.

But those wins may have proved misleading. 

This week, the store permanently shut its doors—a decision that Apple justified by citing the “departure of several retailers and declining conditions” at the mall where it was located. The store closure will leave over half of the store’s 70 unionized workers without a job, according to a report in The New York Times.

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