Apple Extends Push to Keep Stores From Unionizing: Power On

Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing. Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company’s product and component production beyond China, job cuts hit Apple’s corporate ranks, and another executive departs.

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The Starters

Customers shop at Apple’s store in the Towson Town Center mall in Maryland.

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Apple Inc.’s attempts to keep its stores from unionizing are continuing, with the iPhone maker looking to avoid the kind of labor inroads seen at companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Starbucks Corp.

Over the past two weeks, managers at Apple’s roughly 270 ...