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Re:Apple's Retail Philosophy - Employees reveal calculated c... by sorbus on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:38PM (#2658167)
There was a thing a while back about Apple's retail employees complaining about low wages and few benefits, but I don't think that the allegations were ever confirmed, or that anything came out of it. The GP may have been referencing that.

Actually, a bit of Googling shows that this is still going on, with employees trying to unionize. According to [1], one person wants "to form a union to fight for better wages and benefits and to address what he says are unfair practices".

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/12/us-apple-idUSTRE75...

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Re:Apple's Retail Philosophy - Employees reveal calculated c... by tptacek on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:50PM (#2658228)
It's one guy, who says he's gotten little public support. But even if he had a deep wellspring of support: this is supply and demand. Apple is a highly specialized retailer that nonetheless can draw on hundreds of thousands of potentially qualified candidates. How could a union change that dynamic?
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