Barcelona Apple Store union will strike on December 23

Then people get triggered when large companies adopt automations or move talent abroad like tech support. Apple refused the 7% pay rise because every other company paid 4%.

bloggerblog said:

Then people get triggered when large companies adopt automations or move talent abroad like tech support. Apple refused the 7% pay rise because every other company paid 4%.

Yes, the nerve of these people wanting their pay to match the rate of inflation! Outrageous!

Have you listened to yourself?

bloggerblog said:

Then people get triggered when large companies adopt automations or move talent abroad like tech support. Apple refused the 7% pay rise because every other company paid 4%.

What's interesting is that companies are motivated to improve their efficiency when wages are high. Naturally, nobody wants to be forced into doing work; thus the usual approach is to complain about the high cost of labour and try to suppress wage growth - which has the result of breeding resentment.

I wonder what would happen if companies framed the problem as "how can we afford to pay our employees more?"

As an American and former apple retail employee. Some of these are laughable:

the group demands Apple support bonuses for working on Sundays and holidays.

It also wants Apple to accept volunteers to work during those periods. 

Volunteers as in an employee volunteering for a holiday shift? Or volunteers in general? Imagine the Genius Bar:

 “yes sir. I just need to reset the flux capacitor on your iPhone with this hammer. Trust me, I’m a volunteer.”

The other demands revolve around scheduling, with one including introducing regular shifts with fixed in and out times, as well as meal times, on a weekly rotation. 

There is also a long-term scheduling issue, the union feels, with it wanting monthly delivery of schedules that offer timings up to three months in advance. 

It’s retail, not an office job. By nature it demands flexibility. You want to know your schedule 3 months in advance?? You’d be lucky to know it 2 weeks out.

Just ask for more $ in general and deal with retail. Or leave. But these demands show that you clearly don’t understand retail. 

iadlib said:

As an American and former apple retail employee. Some of these are laughable:

the group demands Apple support bonuses for working on Sundays and holidays.

What?? Is the country or city as a whole closed on Sundays? Barcelona is a tourist destination. So yeah, no. 

It also wants Apple to accept volunteers to work during those periods. 

Volunteers as in an employee volunteering for a holiday shift? Or volunteers in general? Imagine the Genius Bar:

 “yes sir. I just need to reset the flux capacitor on your iPhone with this hammer. Trust me, I’m a volunteer.”

The other demands revolve around scheduling, with one including introducing regular shifts with fixed in and out times, as well as meal times, on a weekly rotation. 

There is also a long-term scheduling issue, the union feels, with it wanting monthly delivery of schedules that offer timings up to three months in advance. 

It’s retail, not an office job. By nature it demands flexibility. You want to know your schedule 3 months in advance?? You’d be lucky to know it 2 weeks out.

Just ask for more $ in general and deal with retail. Or leave. But these demands show that you clearly don’t understand retail. 

"As an American". 

You may well find that some EU retail workers actually manage to get these things into labour conventions.