‘Left behind’ US tech workers ready to embrace labour, union says

The machinists union helped orchestrate a successful unionisation campaign at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland, culminating in employees voting roughly 2-to-1 to join the labour group last weekend. — AFP

Tech workers around the US are ready to embrace the labour movement after years of being “left behind”, said a top executive at the union that just won a first-of-its-kind election at an Apple Inc store.

“It is going to be a great change,” David Sullivan, the general vice president of eastern territory for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said in an interview Wednesday on Bloomberg Television. “This is the workforce that needs a union.”