Labor Board Accuses Apple of Implementing Unlawful Insurance policies for All Staff Nationwide

Investigators with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board have for the primary time accused Apple of sustaining a sequence of unlawful insurance policies for its staff nationwide, including to a sequence of circumstances the company has introduced in opposition to the tech large for its anti-union actions at particular shops.

In a grievance filed Friday, the NLRB’s Los Angeles workplace mentioned the tech large imposed “quite a few” illegal guidelines on employees, together with confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure insurance policies, non-compete insurance policies, misconduct insurance policies, and social media insurance policies that violate the Nationwide Labor Relations Act. The L.A. workplace spent years investigating the allegations, which stem from costs made in opposition to the corporate in 2021, and finally filed the grievance final week after failing to achieve a settlement with Apple, mentioned Kayla Blado, a spokesperson for the company. The NLRB has not but revealed the grievance or shared extra particulars concerning the alleged violations.

Apple has entered into six settlement agreements with the NLRB and the related unions to resolve unfair labor follow costs over the previous two years. Three extra complaints from regional places of work are pending an administrative choose’s ruling as a result of a settlement wasn’t reached and the NLRB is investigating an additional 30 circumstances throughout 11 states that would doubtlessly add to that record, in accordance with Blado.

In contrast to the earlier complaints, which have centered on union busting at particular person shops and places of work, this most up-to-date grievance covers the corporate’s insurance policies in any respect of its places. The case is scheduled for a listening to earlier than an administrative regulation choose in January.

In Could, the NLRB affirmed an administrative regulation choose’s findings that Apple illegally interrogated employees at a New York Metropolis retailer about their unionization efforts and prevented them from sharing pro-union flyers. That union drive failed and Apple has appealed the NLRB’s determination.

In June of 2023, the NLRB regional workplace in Oakland, California filed a grievance in opposition to Apple alleging the corporate illegally fired, disciplined, threatened, and interrogated an worker for partaking in protected union exercise at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. And in December 2022, the company’s Atlanta workplace accused the corporate of interrogating staff and forcing them to attend anti-union conferences. Each of these circumstances are awaiting rulings from NLRB administrative regulation judges.

Regardless of the corporate’s stress campaigns, staff at two Apple shops–in Oklahoma Metropolis and Towson, Maryland–have efficiently fashioned unions. The Oklahoma Metropolis retailer employees ratified their first contract with the corporate final week, a month after voting to authorize a strike.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.