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The Communications Workers of America union is alleging that Apple fired five workers in Kansas City, and disciplined another in Texas, in retaliation for organizing. The union has also accused the company of interrogating employees, promising those employees better working conditions if they don\u2019t support the union, and threatening them with worse conditions if they do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nApple management said I was fired for a typo in my timesheet that I had documented and tried to correct. Yet, it is clear the real reason I was fired was for exercising my right to organize and win a protected voice on the job. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\nAnother employee says she was put on notice after arriving a minute late to work three times in a month, according to The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, and that she was fired \u201cafter two more attendance-related issues.\u201d The union has filed two charges of unfair labor practice \u2014 one for each store \u2014 with the National Labor Relations Board. You can read both at the bottom of this story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nApple didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Verge<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThis isn\u2019t the first time Apple\u2019s received an unfair labor complaint about its behavior towards workers who are attempting to organize. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled<\/a> that the company interrogated and tried to coerce employees in Atlanta, and it also filed a complaint against Apple<\/a> which claimed the company discriminated against employees\u2019 union efforts in New York. Organizers at Towson Town Center, Apple\u2019s first unionized retail location in the US, have also accused the company of withholding details<\/a> about new benefits it gave to other workers, making it difficult to bargain for the same treatment as non-unionized staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n