Dozens of Apple employees in Australia are preparing to protest again after more than two-thirds of staff rejected a pay and benefits deal, setting the stage for the intensification of a protest that resulted in days of strike at stores across the country. Results from a survey, which involved 87% of Apple’s almost 4,000 employees in Australia, were made public on October 31, 2022, which revealed that 68% of employees opposed the workplace agreement proposed by the management. There has been a significant increase in the number of employees at Apple Inc in 2021 over that in the previous years, according to GlobalData.
At a meeting on October 31, 2022, members of the Retail and Fast-Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) – one of the three unions involved in the negotiations and representing some 200 workers ؘ– will “definitely” discuss further strikes. In the middle of the three-day voting period on Saturday, RAFFWU employees staged a one-hour walkout. This came after an all-day strike in October 2022. Apple presented a new set of locked-in wage increases and conditions in August 2022, sparking the start of negotiations. Unions claim that these conditions result in real income cutbacks and a terrible work-life balance.
Unions demand that Apple promise two things: weekends that are two sequential days rather than being divided, and wage hikes that mirror inflation, which is around 7% in Australia and is more than double the central bank’s target range. According to Apple, its minimum pay rates are 17% higher than the industry standard, and full-time employees are promised holidays.
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