Apple Together Brings Corporate Workers Into the Union Effort

It was an incredibly fruitful conversation that, in my understanding, is leading to organizing within that store.” (Since Scarlett and Parrish no longer work at Apple, they participate in Apple Together in advisory roles.)Some stores have unionized without Apple Together’s help. “I tried to incorporate what I learned from the Sunrise Movement into how I helped organize Apple Together, keeping in mind all of those solidarity ideals, the importance of storytelling in how you build a movement and recruit people, and that everybody's voice has a right to be heard.”For now, Apple Together operates largely anonymously, run by volunteer committees, but it could come to resemble something closer to the Alphabet Workers Union, a solidarity union with public officers and dues-paying members that launched last year and is affiliated with the Communication Workers of America. “The retail stores are very conducive to majority union bargaining units,” says the Apple Together organizer. Whereas, on the corporate and AppleCare sides, “it might not be immediately clear how those bargaining units break down.”The organizer believes that the current base is composed of more risk-tolerant employees, given Apple’s history of firing workers like Parrish who have spoken out about working conditions.