{"id":26435,"date":"2024-09-24T19:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b6888651-c40b-4378-827e-7f796ae4f85012"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:20:06","slug":"apple-store-employees-in-oklahoma-city-ratify-their-first-union-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/apple-store-employees-in-oklahoma-city-ratify-their-first-union-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Store employees in Oklahoma City ratify their first union contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/apple-store-employees-in-oklahoma-city-ratify-their-first-union-contract.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Employees at an Apple Store in Oklahoma City&#8217;s Penn Square Mall have voted to ratify their first collectively-bargained contract. The store&#8217;s workers are part of the Communications Workers of America, operating as Apple Retail Union-CWA Local 6016. The employees&#8217; three-year agreement with Apple includes the following, according to a press release from CWA:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;Wage increases of up to 11.5% over the next three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;Worker involvement in scheduling and guaranteed paid time off to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;A safer and more democratic workplace with a grievance and arbitration process and the establishment of joint Safety and Health and Working Relations committees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;Job protection in the event of a store closure or relocation and severance pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;Guaranteed paid time off, health and other benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today&#8217;s news caps off years of <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>preparation<\/ins><\/span> to unionize and secure a contract for the Penn Square Mall Apple Store, which began organizing in early 2022. The parties reached a <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>tentative agreement<\/ins><\/span> in early September after a unanimous strike authorization vote in August and a store picket.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma City employees are the second group of Apple retail workers to reach a contract through their union. An Apple Store in Maryland was the first of the tech company&#8217;s retail stores to unionize, <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>joining<\/ins><\/span> the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees at an Apple Store in Oklahoma City&#8217;s Penn Square Mall have voted to ratify their first collectively-bargained contract. The store&#8217;s workers are part of the Communications Workers of America, operating as Apple Retail Union-CWA Local 6016. The employees&#8217; three-year agreement with Apple includes the following, according to a press release from CWA: &#8220;Wage increases &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-26435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-gadgets","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26435"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=26435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}