<story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeone3000</author><text>Few unions survived union-busting in the 80s, and pretty much no new unions formed. Between this and the hollowing out of the unionized trades in the US, we’re down to autoworkers, machinists, boilermakers, teamsters, and a few others as large unions able to help new shops unionize.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>&amp;gt; The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees ...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never understood how employees choose unions when they form new arrangements like this. Does someone more familiar with the process have any insight into why the names of the unions that get selected in these votes never seem to bear any relationship to the work being unionized?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sn0wCoder</author><text>Douglas J. McCarron head of the Carpenters Union Las Vegas, they own the most expensive piece of property in the USA (or thought to be) right across from the White House.  The carpenters also do welders, carpet layers, ceiling tile, and a few others.  Mostly in the upper US, as the south is known for being right to work.  Some government contracts will pay prevailing wages even to non-union workers to make the bids fair.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeone3000</author><text>Few unions survived union-busting in the 80s, and pretty much no new unions formed. Between this and the hollowing out of the unionized trades in the US, we’re down to autoworkers, machinists, boilermakers, teamsters, and a few others as large unions able to help new shops unionize.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>&amp;gt; The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees ...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never understood how employees choose unions when they form new arrangements like this. Does someone more familiar with the process have any insight into why the names of the unions that get selected in these votes never seem to bear any relationship to the work being unionized?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>NABTU is a large umbrella organization encompassing a lot of these.</text></comment>