Apple Store Union Workers at Closing Location Accuse Company of Retaliation
Union representatives said Apple denied workers the ability to easily transfer to other locations, in a departure from its typical practice.
A shopper carries an Apple bag outside the company's store in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergThe union representing Apple Store employees from a soon-to-be-closed location in Towson, Maryland, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing the company of illegally discriminating against the shop’s staff by refusing to let them easily transfer to other locations.
The store made history in 2022 when it became Apple Inc.’s first unionized retail location in the US. Now it’s one of three stores the company is shuttering, which Apple blamed on the “departure of several retailers and declining conditions” in the case of the mall housing the Towson outpost. But union representatives say the iPhone maker is treating the Towson staff worse than it typically does in situations like these by making it harder for them to stay with Apple.