Apple illegally interrogated staff about union, US judge rules

The judge wrote that Apple should be required to “cease and desist” from coercively interrogating workers about their legally protected labour activism. — Bloomberg

Apple Inc “coercively interrogated” retail employees about their pro-union sympathies and restricted the circulation of union flyers, a US labour board judge ruled, marking a victory for labour organisers at the world’s most valuable company.

In a Tuesday decision, a National Labor Relations Board judge wrote that Apple violated the rights of employees at its World Trade Center store in New York City, one of several around the country where workers waged union campaigns last year.