Other proposals include asking Apple to double pay for staffers who work over 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, double overtime weekend pay, increased pay for first-aid certified workers, and offering a maximum of 34 weeks of severance pay after layoffs. The thread also listed several other proposals for the negotiations with Apple, which include expanding Apple's list of paid holidays, increasing vacation time for full-time and part-time employees, and offering wellness leave. The union also noted that 'all monies collected through this manner would be dispersed to members of the bargaining unit biweekly based on any hours worked.' 'We thought a lot about the easiest way to accomplish this and we thought adopting a model already used by other workers who provide services to their community might be the simplest to implement.' 'A big ask from our team when preparing for negotiations was to include some sort of profit-sharing or bonus structure,' the union said in the thread. The employees at the Towson store organized as the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees in June when they voted to be represented by The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers.ĬORE's Twitter account outlined some of the proposals in a thread on Thursday, where it acknowledged the tipping system might be a 'little controversial'. Bloomberg first reported the details of the proposals Wednesday. It's part of a broader list of economic proposals as the union heads into negotiation with Apple. The proposed system would allow customers to tip store workers in increments of 3%, 5%, or a customized amount for in-store credit card transactions. It's part of a series of new proposals from the union ahead of contract negotiations.Įmployees at Apple's first unionized store in Towson, Maryland are pushing for a contract that includes the introduction of tipping. The proposal calls for customers to tip in increments of 3%, 5%, or a custom amount. Workers at Apple's first unionized store in suburban Baltimore are pushing for a tipping system. Apple's store in Towson, Maryland (pictured above) was the first to unionize.

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