Apple Created a Pseudo-Union to Defeat Organizers in Ohio, Complaint Claims

  • Union files complaint with National Labor Relations Board
  • Apple promoted rival ‘working group’ at Ohio store, union says

    

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Apple Inc. tried to prevent union-organizing efforts in Ohio by creating a company-controlled labor group for employees to join instead, the Communications Workers of America alleged in a complaint.

In a filing Friday with the US National Labor Relations Board, the CWA accused the tech company of “soliciting employees to join an employer-created / employer-dominated labor organization as a means of stifling union activities.”