Apple Workers in Australia Set to Strike Over Stalled Pay, Benefits Negotiations on October 18

A union representing Australian employees of iPhone maker Apple voted to strike due to a lack of progress on wage negotiations, a union official said on Tuesday.

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The one-hour strike planned for October 18 is set to disrupt the tech company's store operations in the country and add to the pressure it is facing elsewhere on industrial relations.

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The planned strike will involve about 150 of Apple's 4,000 Australian employees who are represented by the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), restricting most customer services in at least three of the company's 22 stores in the country, the union said.

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The strike would be the first for Apple in Australia, according to the RAFFWU, and widens the company's global exposure to collective bargaining just as soaring cost-of-living pressures prompt US employees of Apple and other large firms like Amazon to unionise.

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In Australia, Apple set off a round of union talks by proposing in August a new set of locked-in wage rises and conditions. The RAFFWU and two other unions went to an industrial arbiter in September seeking more time to negotiate, which was granted, the unions and Apple have said.

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"We've come to the end of that today and we still aren't anywhere near a satisfactory agreement, so last night members unanimously endorsed that path," RAFFWU federal secretary Josh Cullinan told Reuters by phone.

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Apple Workers in Australia Set to Strike Over Stalled Pay, Benefits Negotiations on October 18

About 150 of Apple's 4,000 Australian employees are set to go on strike, restricting most customer services in at least three of the company's 22 stores in the country.

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A union representing Australian employees of iPhone maker Apple voted to strike due to a lack of progress on wage negotiations, a union official said on Tuesday.

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The one-hour strike planned for October 18 is set to disrupt the tech company's store operations in the country and add to the pressure it is facing elsewhere on industrial relations.

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The planned strike will involve about 150 of Apple's 4,000 Australian employees who are represented by the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), restricting most customer services in at least three of the company's 22 stores in the country, the union said.

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The strike would be the first for Apple in Australia, according to the RAFFWU, and widens the company's global exposure to collective bargaining just as soaring cost-of-living pressures prompt US employees of Apple and other large firms like Amazon to unionise.

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In Australia, Apple set off a round of union talks by proposing in August a new set of locked-in wage rises and conditions. The RAFFWU and two other unions went to an industrial arbiter in September seeking more time to negotiate, which was granted, the unions and Apple have said.

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"We've come to the end of that today and we still aren't anywhere near a satisfactory agreement, so last night members unanimously endorsed that path," RAFFWU federal secretary Josh Cullinan told Reuters by phone.

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