Employees at Apple's Grand Central Store are Collecting Signatures to Form a Union

New York City employees at one of Apple's flagship retail outlets are taking the initial steps toward unionization. Workers at the Apple Store at Grand Central Terminal are collecting signatures to start the unionization process, as originally reported by The Washington Post this weekend. If successful, this would be the first time Apple Store workers have joined a union. According to a report from February, some Apple Store employees in the United States were in the early stages of unionization. The "Fruit Stand Workers United" project is being promoted by the organizers of the unionization drive. On February 21, they claim to have voted to connect with Workers United. Despite Apple's obvious anti-union measures, workers at the company's Grand Central Terminal site are moving on with the unionization process. According to the Fruit Stand Workers United website, activists at the business have begun formally collecting signatures in order to join a union. Employees at Apple Stores are increasing their attempts to unionize for a number of reasons, including the persistent effects of inflation and high-stress working conditions in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic. According to an extract from the Fruit Stand Workers United website:

“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 in what have proven to be extraordinary times with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic and once-in-a-generation consumer price inflation.”

If the employees at Grand Central succeed in their quest to form a union, it will be the first time that Apple Store employees have done so. Organizers hope that the Grand Central campaign's success would inspire other Apple Stores throughout the country to follow suit.