Apple Union Win Shows Labor Gains in Organizing-Resistant South

Organized labor’s decisive victory at an Apple Inc. Store in Oklahoma City is causing unions to rethink their long-held belief that workers in Republican-dominated Southern states can’t be won over.

That assumption—which has guided union organizers for the better part of a century—was called into question Oct. 14 when workers at the Oklahoma store overwhelmingly voted to join the Communications Workers of America, the second of about 270 Apple retail locations in the US to unionize.

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Union organizers and labor scholars said the blowout victory was significant ...