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The successful vote came after another planned vote in Georgia was called off earlier this year.Īpple intends to participate in the bargaining process in "good faith," the person familiar with the matter said.

The store is the first of Apple's roughly 270 U.S. Nearly two-thirds of the employees at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland who organized as the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE), voted to join a union last week. employees to join a union and is ready to bargain with them, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.Īpple is one of several major American companies whose workforces have moved to unionize, with workers at some Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) and Amazon Inc (AMZN.O) locations also voting to join a union in recent months. The whole thing was caught on cellphone video, as seen below.June 24 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O)accepts the outcome of a vote by Maryland store workers to become its first U.S. One of the suspects reportedly threatened shoppers, saying they should not try to stop them, but no weapons were used. During that robbery, as KRON4 reported at the time, two suspects entered the busy store and stole $35,000 worth of iPhones and laptops. This crew was likely responsible for a widely publicized robbery of the Palo Alto Apple Store that took place on Black Friday, in November 2022. The eight suspects have been charged by the CA Department of Justice with conspiracy to commit retail theft, organized retail theft, grand theft, theft in the amount over $500,000, and "an aggravated white collar enhancement." "I would like to recognize the incredible work done by all those involved and acknowledge the Attorney General’s Office for their ongoing support and determination to prosecute these cases."īonta thanks the CHP and other law enforcement partners, and said, "Brazen criminal activity, such as the organized retail theft operation we have taken down today, will not be tolerated in California."

"The California Highway Patrol’s partnerships with local, state, and federal agencies, along with our private industry, continue to result in arrests and recovery of millions of dollars in stolen products," said California Highway Patrol, Golden Gate Division Chief Ezery Beauchamp in a statement. The thefts occurred between August 2022 and January 2023. This organized ring of thieves is believed to have targeted Apple Stores in eleven counties in Northern and Southern California, including San Francisco, Yolo, Monterey, Alameda, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Marin, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Riverside. An organized retail theft ring that netted around $1 million in stolen Apple products over the last six months has been busted following an investigation by the CHP's retail theft unit.Ĭalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Highway Patrol announced the bust Thursday, saying that eight arrests were made and the suspects now face multiple felony grand theft charges.