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On October 18 2024, Apple filed an Answer in response to the NLRB Complaint alleging Apple's NDAs and work policies violate federal labor laws. Apple's defense is basically that Apple Inc is a person, and as a person, Apple Inc has a first amendment right to harass its employees. The Answer is posted to the NLRB webpage for the case: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-284428 The NLRB Hearing is scheduled for Jan. 22 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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10/15/2024 - NLRB finds merit in Ashley's charges of unfair labor practices & retaliation10/15/2024 On Oct. 15 2024, NLRB finally made a decision on my 2021 unfair labor practice charges against Apple! If Apple doesn't settle with NLRB asap, NLRB is filing a complaint against Apple, alleging that Apple violated the NLRA at least ten times with me specifically. A complaint would be issued in 1-2 weeks, a formal trial would be scheduled, & Apple would have to try to explain to a judge why it thinks what it did to me is fine, actually. The NLRB found Apple violated federal labor law when it put me on leave on 8/4/21, fired me on 9/9/21, & in at least 8 statements made to me starting in March 2021 with: don't talk to your coworkers about safety or Superfund sites. Apple Employee Relation's 5-point balancing test (to use if I think I want to talk to my coworkers about safety or toxic waste dumps) is also featured. I could've bickered with them about twice as many additional charges & probably got most if I pushed on it, but it'd delay things for another six months or more, so 10 ULPs is good enough. If you're new to this toxic waste fiasco & catching up on the last three years, I did make a PowerPoint presentation about much of it for this year's LaborFest. (below) You can also learn more about HAZWOPER worker rights here: HAZWOPER & HAZCOM Reading Room On October 3 2024, the NLRB filed a corrected version of the Complaint for the hearing announced on Sept. 27 2024. Due to the amendment, the deadline for Apple to respond to the complaint is now October 17 2024. Link: Corrected NLRB Complaint Link: Original NLRB Complaint The NLRB case page is here: https://nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-284428  "...Respondent is notified that, pursuant to Sections 102.20 and 102.21 of the Board’s Rules and Regulations, it must file an answer to the corrected complaint. The answer must be electronically filed with this office on or before Thursday, October 17, 2024. Respondent also must serve a copy of the answer on each of the other parties....
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on January 22, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. at the National Labor Relations Board, Region 21, 312 N. Spring Street, 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA, and on consecutive days thereafter until concluded, a hearing will be conducted before an administrative law judge of the National Labor Relations Board. At the hearing, Respondent and any other party to this proceeding have the right to appear and present testimony regarding the allegations in this complaint..." * from NLRB's Complaint On Sept. 27 2024, the NLRB issued a Complaint and Notice of Hearing for my charge (32-CA-284428) against Apple In Oct 2021, I filed a NLRB charge against Apple, alleging that almost all of Apple's employee policies violate federal labor laws. In 2023, NLRB agreed; & yesterday, Sept. 27 2024, NLRB issued a Complaint & Notice of Hearing for Apple's first all-US-employee NLRB lawsuit. The NLRB is suing Apple over *nine* individual policies. The NLRB is suing Apple over its Intellectual Property Agreement, Business Conduct Policy, Workplace Searches & Privacy Policy, Misconduct & Discipline Policy, Social Media Policy - & more. Notably, this Complaint includes *all* policies Apple claimed I was fired for violating. The full NLRB Complaint is here. The NLRB case page is here: https://nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-284428  On December 29 2023, Ashley filed another NLRB charge against Apple. This time, Ashley charged Apple's lawyers violated the NLRA on Apple's behalf.
The charge is # 01-CA-332897 Read more about the NLRB charge here. On January 30 2023, the US NLRB issued a Decision of Merit on two of Gjovik's NLRB charges. The charges were filed in October of 2021 and alleged Apple's employee handbook, NDAs, and a threatening email sent by Tim Cook, all violate the NLRA.
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On January 10 2022, Ashley filed another NLRB charge to capture the continuing harassment, intimidation, coercion, and retaliation that had occurred after she was fired.
The charge is # 32-CA-288816 On September 16 2021, Ashley filed a second charge with the NLRB accusing Apple of violation the NLRA when it fired her on September 9 2021.
The charge is # 32-CA-283161 On August 26 2021, Ashley filed her first NLRB charge against Apple - while she was still employed, shortly before Apple terminated her.
The NLRB charge is # 32-CA-282142 "In her letter to the NLRB, she said Apple’s employee relations department “intimidated me not to speak about my safety concerns”, that a manager advised she quit Apple and that she was subject to sexism and a “dramatically increased” workload. Matters escalated when she took her complaints to Apple’s Slack channels, specifically a 2,000-member forum for female software engineers. She said she was flooded with supportive comments and similar stories of workplace harassment — but she had since been banned from using Slack as part of her administrative leave." Financial Times [link] |
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