Punching In: Apple Store Union Landslide Signals Big Wave Coming

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Organizing Apple Stores | Union Recruiting

Ian Kullgren: Apple Inc. didn’t just lose its first retail union election June 18.

The company got crushed. Annihilated. Vanquished. There are plenty of appropriate verbs, all of them bad for Tim Cook and the Cupertino C-suite. The incipient union at the Towson, Md., Apple store prevailed by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, proving that the Apple store union movement may have what it takes to become the next Starbucks Workers United.

A preliminary count showed the union winning 65-33. There were 110 eligible workers in the bargaining ...