Atlanta Apple store becomes first to file for union election

Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta, Georgia, have filed to hold a formal union election with the National Labor Relations Board, becoming the first group of Apple store workers in the country to do so.

According to Communications Workers of America, which would represent the workers should they vote to unionize, 70% of the the store's 107 employees have signed union authorization cards. 

"A number of us have been here for many years, and we don't think you stick at a place unless you love it," Derrick Bowles, an employee at the Cumberland Mall store, said Wednesday in a press release. "Apple is a profoundly positive place to work, but we know that the company can better live up to their ideals and so we're excited to be joining together with our coworkers to bring Apple to the negotiating table and make this an even better place to work."