Apple workers in Australia demanding a salary increase
2022.12.23 00:57
Apple workers in Australia demanding a salary increase
Budrigannews.com – (NASDAQ:) Apple Inc. A workers’ union said that’s workers in Australia started a strike on Friday afternoon, demanding better working conditions and wages. This could hurt sales of the tech giant during the peak Christmas shopping season.
Australia’s Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) members had announced earlier this month that they would walk out of Apple’s nationwide retail locations at 3 p.m. local time (0400 GMT) on December 23, with plans to remain absent through Christmas Eve.
The tech giant is facing disruption at its flagship iPhone plant in China as a result of a rare workers’ protest against China’s extremely stringent COVID rules and poor factory management.
As employees continued to criticize the company’s working conditions, Apple employees in Maryland, United States, became the first retail employees of the tech giant to join a union earlier in June.
The RAFFWU, which is leading the strike, says that an eight-year-old agreement doesn’t give workers, among other things, “weekends, consecutive days off, set rosters, set days of work, 12-hour breaks between shifts, overtime rates.”
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“The 2014 understanding is one such understanding which pushed laborers beneath the legitimate least,” the association claimed, requesting the iPhone creator promptly return to the table and arrange a fair understanding.
