CWA D1 Organizing Updates - April 2024

Local 1101 - Apple

On April 10th, workers at Apple Short Hills, an Apple retail store with 104 employees in Short Hills, NJ, filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize with CWA Local 1101.

The workers are organizing in the face of strong anti-union efforts by the massive tech company to win fair treatment for all store workers, competitive pay, strong benefits, and improved working conditions. John Nagy, a member of the organizing committee, said in a statement that joining CWA is “the best way to ensure all Apple workers receive the respect, pay, benefits and working conditions we deserve.”

Apple has been staunchly anti-union and actively discouraged workers throughout the country from organizing, including holding anti-union “captive audience meetings” with workers to “discuss the risks of unionization.”

Local 1101 - BerlinRosen

BerlinRosen, a top communications firm delivering public relations (PR), digital strategy, and creative services, recognized CWA Local 1101 earlier this month as the union for 126 people. This follows recognition for ten people on the firm's Creative Campaign team in December. 

Local 1104 - New York State College of Ceramics

Graduate student workers at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (NYSCC) demanded union recognition on April 8, seeking to join CWA Local 1104. One day later, the workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election to represent 58 graduate workers. They would be joining over 5,000 members of the Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU), part of Local 1104, with members throughout the New York State University System as well as Fordham University in New York City.

“As a graduate student in the MFA program at NYSCC Alfred University, I decided to unionize because of the gross inequities in pay and benefits for graduate workers,” said C. Hancock, an MFA candidate. “I hope that through our successful organizing, we can deepen ties across the schools of NYSCC as well as improving conditions for graduate student workers, which will ultimately strengthen the entire university community. NYS College of Ceramics works because we do. As student workers, we want a voice on the job.”

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