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Maryland Apple workers face hurdles after vote to unionize
By The Related Press
The historic vote by workers of a Maryland Apple retailer to unionize — a primary for the expertise big — is a major step in a prolonged course of that labor specialists say is closely stacked in opposition to employees in favor of their employers.
Apple retailer workers in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a virtually 2-to-1 margin on June 18, becoming a member of a rising push throughout U.S. retail, service and tech industries to arrange for higher office protections.
It’s not but clear whether or not the latest wave of unionizations represents a broader shift in U.S. labor. However specialists say the present scarcity of employees for hourly and low-wage jobs means workers have extra energy than they’d traditionally, particularly when unemployment is low.
“It’s not that massive of a deal to lose one in all these jobs as a result of you may get one other crummy job,” mentioned Ruth Milkman, labor scholar on the Metropolis College of New York.
The query is, what occurs now?
The Apple retail employees in Towson, Md., voted 65 to 33 to hunt entry into the Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Staff, the union’s announcement mentioned. The Nationwide Labor Relations Board now has to certify the end result. A spokesperson referred preliminary queries concerning the vote to the board’s regional workplace, which was closed late on June 18. The board didn’t instantly reply to an Related Press message on June 19.
As soon as the vote is licensed, the union and Apple can start negotiating a contract.
“Labor regulation in the USA is a protracted course of. And so the truth that a single retailer negotiates or elects a union doesn’t imply that there’s a negotiated contract within the office. And we all know in latest historical past that in lots of of those conditions, events are unable to come back to phrases on an preliminary contract,” Michael Duff, a former NLRB lawyer and professor on the College of Wyoming Faculty of Legislation, mentioned on June 19.
“The employer in the USA has an terrible lot of rights to easily withdraw recognition on the finish of the method. The employer can show that it now not helps a majority of the staff within the bargaining unit,” Duff added.
Even after a union is licensed, an organization has quite a lot of authorized maneuvers at its disposal to battle it, Duff mentioned. As an example, Apple may say it doesn’t consider that the bargaining unit licensed by the NLRB is an applicable bargaining unit.
“If that occurs, the entire thing goes to the courts and it may simply be a yr or two earlier than you even get the query of whether or not the employer is required to discount with the union,” Duff added.
“Labor specialists say it’s frequent for employers to pull out the bargaining course of in an effort to take the momentum out of union campaigns. It’s additionally doable that Apple — or some other firm — restructures its enterprise so the unionized employees are reclassified as unbiased contractors and never workers, wherein case the union vote is moot”, Duff mentioned.
Apple declined to touch upon the event on June 18, firm spokesperson Josh Lipton instructed The Related Press by telephone. Reached once more on June 19, Apple didn’t remark.
The profitable vote serves to encourage employees across the nation to arrange, mentioned John Logan, Director of Labor and Employment Research at San Francisco State College.
“Staff are already organizing at different Apple shops, however this reveals them the corporate shouldn’t be invincible,” he mentioned.
Apple’s well-known model identify can also be seemingly to assist.
“The general public has a really direct relationship with corporations like Apple, so the primary union victory will generate huge conventional media and social media protection,” Logan mentioned. “Younger employees be taught union activism via this protection, and a few will seemingly be impressed to attempt to set up their very own workplaces.”
Regardless of U.S. labor regulation being stacked in opposition to employees, Duff mentioned he thinks that “if there’s going to be a reawakened labor motion in the USA it’ll occur in simply this fashion.”
Union organizing in a wide range of fields has gained momentum lately after many years of decline in U.S. union membership. Organizers have labored to determine unions at corporations together with Amazon, Starbucks, Google guardian firm Alphabet, and outdoor retailer REI.
The Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists, Aerospace Staff and the Apple workers who needed to hitch mentioned they despatched Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner discover final month that they had been in search of to kind a union. The assertion mentioned their driving motivation was to hunt “rights we don’t at present have.” It added that the employees lately organized within the Coalition of Organized Retail Workers, or CORE.
“I applaud the braveness displayed by CORE members on the Apple retailer in Towson for attaining this historic victory,” IAM Worldwide President Robert Martinez Jr. mentioned within the assertion. “They made an enormous sacrifice for 1000’s of Apple workers throughout the nation who had all eyes on this election.”
Martinez known as on Apple to respect the election outcomes and to let the unionizing workers fast-track efforts to safe a contract on the Towson location.
The IAM payments itself as one of many largest and most numerous industrial commerce unions in North America, representing roughly 600,000 energetic and retired members within the aerospace, protection, airways, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and different industries. Logan mentioned the Apple victory reveals that the established labor motion “is able to adapting its self to the wants of the group of independent-minded, self-confident employees you discover at Apple shops.”
The Apple retailer unionization vote comes in opposition to a backdrop of different labor organizing efforts nationwide — a few of them rebuffed.
Amazon employees at a warehouse in New York Metropolis voted to unionize in April, the primary profitable U.S. organizing effort within the retail big’s historical past. Nevertheless, employees at one other Amazon warehouse on Staten Island overwhelmingly rejected a union bid final month. In the meantime, Starbucks employees at dozens of U.S. shops have voted to unionize in latest months, after two of the espresso chain’s shops in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize late final yr.
Many unionization efforts have been led by younger employees of their 20s and even of their teenagers. A gaggle of Google engineers and different employees fashioned the Alphabet Staff Union final yr, which represents round 800 Google workers and is run by 5 people who find themselves underneath 35.
“That is the technology with the type of worldview that’s actually completely different than we’ve seen in lots of generations,” mentioned CUNY’s Milkman. “They consider on this.”
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UCLA can't keep pace in second half during loss at Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Three days after calling his players “soft” and “delusional” in their estimation of their abilities, Mick Cronin wasn’t around to offer a final assessment Friday night.
The UCLA coach was in the locker room, having been ejected with five minutes and 14 seconds left after receiving two rapid-fire technical fouls with his unraveling team down by nine points.
It wasn’t the final indignity for his team. Far from it.
UCLA couldn’t get out of its own way inside the Xfinity Center, the No. 22 Bruins stumbling to a 79-61 loss to Maryland that represented a season-worst third consecutive defeat.
Being soft wasn’t the primary problem on this night. Holding on to the ball or throwing a pass without it being stolen were the big challenges confronting the Bruins.
UCLA committed 21 turnovers, tying its worst showing of the season, while getting outmuscled by another team. If this was a crossroads, then the Bruins (11-5 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) certainly took the wrong turn.
Forward Tyler Bilodeau scored 18 points and guard Trent Perry added 10 off the bench, becoming the only Bruins to reach double figures on a night the team shot 41.5% to Maryland’s 54%. Ja’Kobi Gillespie led the Terrapins (12-4, 2-3) with 27 points.
In need of a confidence boost, UCLA’s Dylan Andrews followed a pull-up jumper with a tough turnaround baseline jumper to pull his team within 53-47 with 12:36 left.
But a flurry of turnovers followed and an irate Cronin was quickly tossed after apparently voicing his displeasure with the referees.
It was only a little more than two years ago that UCLA came here and bludgeoned the Terrapins, leading by as many as 30 points in the first half of a runaway victory. That sort of showing felt like a distant memory Friday.
There were some coming-of-age moments in the first half for Perry, who played with increasing confidence the longer he was in the game.
Among his highlights were a backdoor reverse layup off a pass from Skyy Clark, a steal of a cross-court pass and an offensive rebound that he followed with a driving layup. Perry’s seven points by halftime were more than twice as many as the three points he had collected in the previous four Big Ten games while looking shaky during his brief stints on the court.
UCLA’s 40-36 halftime deficit could have been considered something of a victory for the Bruins considering they committed 11 turnovers — several while having the ball stripped — and allowed Maryland to shoot 51.7%.
There was nothing worthwhile left to come for the Bruins.
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Macy's closing stores in Maryland and Virginia. Here’s the full list.
WASHINGTON – Macy’s is closing more than 60 stores this year as part of a comprehensive strategy to revive its struggling business, the department store said, and several of them are in Maryland and Virginia.
In what the company refers to as its “Bold New Chapter” strategy, Macy’s said in a statement on Thursday that the closures are designed to “return the company to sustainable, profitable sales growth.”
Overall, Macy’s said it plans to close approximately 150 “underproductive stores” through 2026. Meanwhile, it will invest in 350 existing stores, with plans to add more salespeople to fitting areas and shoe departments, and adding more visual displays like mannequins.
Which Maryland Macy’s stores are closing?
Security Square 159 6901 Security Blvd Ste 871. Baltimore, MD 21244
Harford Mall 60 600 Baltimore Pike, Bel Air, MD 21014
Which Virginia Macy’s stores are closing?
Southpark Mall 214 170 Southpark Cir, Colonial Heights, VA 23834
Click here for the FULL LIST of Macy’s stores that are closing:
All Macy’s Store Closures
Arizona
- Superstition Springs Center – 6535 E SOUTHERN AVE MESA AZ
California
- Broadway Plaza – 750 W 7TH ST LOS ANGELES CA
- Hillsdale Furniture – 2838 SOUTH EL CAMINO REAL SAN MATEO CA
- Sunrise Malle – 6000 SUNRISE MALL CITRUS HEIGHTS CA
- Westminster Mall – 300 WESTMINSTER MALL WESTMINSTER CA
- NewPark Mall – 200 NEWPARK MALL NEWARK CA
- Mission Valley Home – 1555 CAMINO DE LA REINA SAN DIEGO CA
- Otay Ranch Town Center – 2015 BIRCH RD STE 2 CHULA VISTA CA
- Village at Corte Madera – 1400 REDWOOD HWY CORTE MADERA CA
- Downtown Plaza – 414 K ST SACRAMENTO CA
Colorado
- Northfield Stapleton – 8298 E NORTHFIELD BLVD DENVER CO
Florida
- Boynton Beach Mall – 801 N CONGRESS AVE STE 100 BOYNTON BEACH FL
- Ft Lauderdale Furniture – 4501 NORTH FEDERAL HIGHWAY FORT LAUDERDALE FL
- Pembroke Furniture – 13640 PINES BLVD PEMBROKE PINES FL
- South Dade Furniture – 13251 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY MIAMI FL
- West Shore Plaza – 298 WESTSHORE PLZ TAMPA FL
- Altamonte Furniture – 820 W TOWN PKWY ALTAMONTE SPGS FL
- Southgate – 3501 S TAMIAMI TRL STE 600 SARASOTA FL
Georgia
- Gwinnett Furniture – 3360 VENTURE PARKWAY DULUTH GA
- Gwinnett Place – 2100 PLEASANT HILL RD STE 2318 DULUTH GA
- Johns Creek Town Center – 3630 PEACHTREE PARKWAY SUWANEE GA
Idaho
- Silver Lake Mall – 200 W HANLEY AVE STE 200-4 COEUR D’ALENE ID
Illinois
- White Oaks Mall 646 104 WHITE OAKS MALL SPRINGFIELD IL
Louisiana
- Acadiana Mall – 5733 JOHNSTON ST STE 2098 LAFAYETTE LA
Massachusetts
- Independence Mall – 101 KINGSTON COLLECTION WAY STE 1 KINGSTON MA
Maryland
- Security Square – 6901 SECURITY BLVD STE 871 BALTIMORE MD
- Harford Malle – 600 BALTIMORE PIKE BEL AIR MD
Michigan
- Grand Traverse Mall – 3400 S AIRPORT RD W TRAVERSE CITY MI
- Lakeside Malle – 14200 LAKESIDE CIR STERLING HGHTS MI
- Oakland Mall – 500 W 14 MILE RD TROY MI
- Genesee Valley Center – 4600 MILLER RD FLINT MI
Minnesota
- Maplewood Mall – 3001 WHITE BEAR AVE N STE 2035 MAPLEWOOD MN
- Burnsville Center – 14251 BURNHAVEN DR BURNSVILLE MN
Missouri
- Metro North Mall – 400 NW BARRY RD STE 150 KANSAS CITY MO
- South County Mall – 10 S COUNTY CENTER WAY SAINT LOUIS MO
New Jersey
- Essex Green Shopping Center – 459 PROSPECT AVENUE WEST ORANGE NJ
New York
- Lake Success – 1550 UNION TURNPIKE NEW HYDE PARK NY
- Melville Mall – 834 WALT WHITMAN ROAD HUNTINGTON NY
- Queens Placed – 88-01 QUEENS BLVD ELMHURST NY
- Sheepshead Bay – 2027 EMMONS AVENUE BROOKLYN NY
- Mall at Greece Ridge – 397 GREECE RIDGE CENTER ROCHESTER NY
- Sunrise Mall – 400 SUNRISE MALL MASSAPEQUA NY
- Brooklyn – 422 FULTON ST BROOKLYN NY
- Staten Island Furniture – 98 RICHMOND HILL ROAD STATEN ISLAND NY
- Fordham Place – 404 EAST FORDHAM RD BRONX NY
Ohio
- Fairfield Commons – 2727 FAIRFIELD COMMONS BLVD SPC 2 BEAVERCREEK OH
- Franklin Park – 5001 MONROE ST STE D100 TOLEDO OH
Oregon
- Streets of Tanasbourne – 2055 NE ALLIE AVE HILLSBORO OR
- Salem Center – 400 HIGH ST NE SALEM OR
Pennsylvania
- Logan Valley Mall – 5580 GOODS LN STE 2178 ALTOONA PA
- Exton Square Mall – 245 EXTON SQUARE MALL EXTON PA
- Philadelphia City Center – 1300 MARKET ST PHILADELPHIA PA
- Wyoming Valley Malle – 59 WYOMING VALLEY MALL WILKES BARRE PA
Tennessee
- Oak Court – 4545 POPLAR AVE MEMPHIS TN
Texas
- Almeda Mall – 100 ALMEDA MALL HOUSTON TX
- Fairview – 201 STACY RD FAIRVIEW TX
- Shops at Willow Bend – 6209 W PARK BLVD PLANO TX
- Southlake Town Square – 321 STATE ST SOUTHLAKE TX
- West Bend – 1751 RIVER RUN #101 FORT WORTH TX
- Highlands of Flower Mound – 6101 LONG PRAIRIE RD STE 500 FLOWER MOUND TX
Virginia
- Southpark Mall – 170 SOUTHPARK CIR COLONIAL HGHTS VA
Washington
- South Hill Mall – 3500 S MERIDIAN STE 985 PUYALLUP WA
- Redmond Furnitureh – 15340 N.E. 24TH STREET REDMOND WA
- Kitsap Mall – 10315 SILVERDALE WAY NW SILVERDALE WA
Previously announced and closed:
- Colorado: Streets at Southglenn Furniture – 6797 SOUTH VINE STREET CENTENNIAL CO
- Florida: Boca Raton Furniture – 9339 GLADES ROAD BOCA RATON FL
Maryland
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