April 9 (Reuters) - Apple said on Thursday that it will shut down its retail store in Towson, Maryland, the first of its U.S. locations where retail employees successfully unionized in 2022.
* The iPhone maker described the decision as "difficult",citing the departure of several retailers and worseningconditions at the Towson Town Center mall as key reasons for theclosure. * Apple said Towson employees will be eligible to apply foropen roles at the company. * In 2022, more than 100 Apple workers in Towson voted tojoin the International Association of Machinists & AerospaceWorkers (IAM) union, marking a milestone for unionization atmajor U.S. corporations such as Amazon.com and Starbucks. * Around the same time, a similar union drive in Atlanta waswithdrawn, with Apple workers alleging intimidation. * The IAM Union said on Thursday that it is "outraged" byApple's decision to close the store, and that it was exploringall legal options. * "Apple's claim that the collective bargaining agreementprevents relocation is simply false and raises serious concernsthat this closure is a cynical attempt to bust the union," theunion said. * Apple also plans to shutter stores at Trumbull Mall inConnecticut and the North County Mall in California, withemployees continuing their roles at nearby Apple Retail stores.
(Reporting by Fabiola Arámburo, Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
Apple Inc. specializes in the design, manufacture and marketing of computer hardware and music supports. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- telephone products (50.4%): iPhone brand;
- peripheral devices (8.6%): screens, storage systems, printers, video camera, memory cards, server, switches, etc.;
- computers (8.1%): laptops (MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro brands) and PCs (iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro and Xserve);
- music support (6.7%): music readers iPod and iPad and accessories;
- other (26.2%): software, maintenance service and Internet access service, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (42.8%), China/Hong Kong/Taiwan (15.5%), Japan (6.9%), Asia/Pacific (8.1%), and Europe/India/Middle East/Africa (26.7%).
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