It's borderline bizarre that a company like Apple , that paints itself as a progressive company, to have a hard stance against Apple store employees forming labor unions . Specially since the kind of person that tend to work at Apple Stores , tend to be people who would actually use the labor union as a body to actually negotiate in ways that benefit both the employees and the company. That even Starbucks has an anti labor union stance on their coffee shops is worrying, since it also tries to paint itself as a fair company with their workers and their providers. The fact that they are trying so hard to impede their workers to form labor unions, could also cast shadows on how fair are their deals with coffee growers. The common trend it the anti labor union stance of both companies, is that they view labor unions as perjudicial for everyone involved by default. The truth is that there are not, it comes down to how workers manage and how the company relates to the labor union. A w...
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