Labor Board Accuses Apple of Implementing Illegal Policies for All Employees Nationwide

Investigators with the National Labor Relations Board person for the archetypal clip accused Apple of maintaining a bid of amerciable policies for its employees nationwide, adding to a bid of cases the bureau has brought against the tech elephantine for its anti-union actions astatine circumstantial stores.

In a ailment filed Friday, the NLRB’s Los Angeles bureau said the tech elephantine imposed “numerous” unlawful rules connected workers, including confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure policies, non-compete policies, misconduct policies, and societal media policies that interruption the National Labor Relations Act. The L.A. bureau spent years investigating the allegations, which stem from charges made against the institution successful 2021, and yet filed the ailment past week aft failing to scope a colony with Apple, said Kayla Blado, a spokesperson for the agency. The NLRB has not yet published the ailment oregon shared much details astir the alleged violations.

Apple has entered into six colony agreements with the NLRB and the associated unions to resoluteness unfair labour signifier charges implicit the past 2 years. Three much complaints from determination offices are pending an administrative judge’s ruling due to the fact that a colony wasn’t reached and the NLRB is investigating a further 30 cases crossed 11 states that could perchance adhd to that list, according to Blado.

Unlike the erstwhile complaints, which person focused connected national busting astatine idiosyncratic stores and offices, this astir caller ailment covers the company’s policies astatine each of its locations. The lawsuit is scheduled for a proceeding earlier an administrative instrumentality justice successful January.

In May, the NLRB affirmed an administrative instrumentality judge’s findings that Apple illegally interrogated workers astatine a New York City store astir their unionization efforts and prevented them from sharing pro-union flyers. That national thrust failed and Apple has appealed the NLRB’s decision.

In June of 2023, the NLRB determination bureau successful Oakland, California filed a ailment against Apple alleging the institution illegally fired, disciplined, threatened, and interrogated an worker for engaging successful protected national enactment astatine its office successful Cupertino, California. And successful December 2022, the agency’s Atlanta bureau accused the institution of interrogating employees and forcing them to be anti-union meetings. Both of those cases are awaiting rulings from NLRB administrative instrumentality judges.

Despite the company’s unit campaigns, employees astatine 2 Apple stores–in Oklahoma City and Towson, Maryland–have successfully formed unions. The Oklahoma City store workers ratified their first contract with the institution past week, a period aft voting to authorize a strike.

Apple did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.