More than 100 workers at Towson, near Baltimore, “voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the International Union of Aeronautical Engineers and Workers,” the union said in a statement on its website. The local workers, who make up the Organized Retail Workers Coalition, “have the support of a steady majority of our colleagues,” they wrote in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register “This is something we do not do to avoid going against or creating conflict with our administration,” they wrote. The Apple logo appears in this image taken on March 1, 2022. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration An Apple spokesman responded to Reuters’ request for comment by saying that the company “has nothing to add at this time.” Apple workers in Atlanta who were trying to join a union withdrew their claim last month, claiming they had been intimidated. Some current and former Apple employees last year began criticizing the company’s working conditions online, using the hashtag #AppleToo. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bengaluru. Edited by William Mallard Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
