Apple Inc. plans to enchantment a Nationwide Labor Relations Board decide’s ruling that the corporate violated worker rights by “coercively” interrogating them about pro-union sympathies and proscribing the circulation of union flyers.
Apple mentioned in a press release Friday that it disagreed with the ruling and can handle it “by the NLRB course of.” The choice, delivered earlier this week, centered on Apple’s retail workers at its World Commerce Middle retailer in New York Metropolis, considered one of a number of across the nation the place staff mounted union campaigns final yr.
“Common open, trustworthy, and direct communication with our staff members is a key a part of Apple’s collaborative tradition,” the Cupertino, California-based firm mentioned within the assertion.
The decide wrote that Apple ought to be required to “stop and desist” from interrogating staff about their legally protected labor activism. The corporate additionally ought to cease confiscating pro-union literature in its break rooms and “interfering with, restraining or coercing workers” within the train of their rights, in response to the choice.
The transfer marked the primary time that an NLRB decide has dominated towards Apple. Such selections may be appealed to the labor board’s members in Washington and, from there, to federal appeals courtroom. The company has the authority to order adjustments to firm insurance policies, however to not maintain executives personally responsible for violations or to impose punitive damages.
