Apple does not plan to provide recently announced employee perks to workers at a Maryland store who have unionized, reports Bloomberg. Apple this week announced plans to offer employees additional funds for education and new health care features in some states, but unionized employees at the Towson, Maryland Apple Store will not receive these benefits.
Towson workers were told that the store would need to negotiate benefits with Apple through the union, which is something that Apple’s head of retail, Deirdre O’Brien, warned employees about in anti-union messaging sent out in May.
“We have a relationship that is based on an open and collaborative and direct engagement,” she said at the time. “Which I feel could fundamentally change if a store is represented by a union under a collective bargaining agreement.”
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