Employees of a grocery store Apple in Oklahoma this Friday voted in favor of training the company’s second largest union in the United States after workers at a Maryland store took the first step in June.
By 56 votes to 32, the workers at this Oklahoma City store decided to form a union, defying the wishes of the company, which had firmly opposed the unionization efforts.
In June, employees at the Maryland store, located in Towson, just outside Baltimore, voted 65 to 33 to join the International Association of Aerospace and Mechanical Workers (AIM), thus creating the first union in an apple shop.
Democratic senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders On that occasion, he congratulated workers via Twitter and celebrated that the country is experiencing a “historic revolt of the working class” against the “greed” of the elites.
Last April, the employees of a Amazon in New York, it approved the formation of the company’s first union, a path also followed by the workers of various cafes in the Starbuckswho also denounced intimidation by the company.
US President Joe Biden has called himself the “most union president” in the country’s history, and has reiterated his call for corporations to raise wages and pay taxes.
