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Apple<\/a> has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the\u00a0first unionized company store<\/a>\u00a0in the country.<\/p>\n The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers\u2019 Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees at a retail location in Maryland, announced Friday evening that it struck a three-year deal with the company that will increase pay by an average of 10% and offer other benefits to workers.<\/p>\n The agreement must be approved by roughly 85 employees at the store, which is located in the Baltimore suburb of Towson. A vote is scheduled for Aug. 6.<\/p>\n \u201cBy reaching a tentative agreement with Apple, we are giving our members a voice in their futures and a strong first step toward further gains,\u201d the union\u2019s negotiating committee said in a statement. \u201cTogether, we can build on this success in store after store.\u201d<\/p>\n Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The deal came after workers at the store\u00a0authorized a strike in May<\/a>, saying talks with management for more than a year hadn\u2019t yielded \u201csatisfactory outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n The Maryland store is one of only two unionized Apple sites in the country. Employees there voted in favor of the union in June 2022, a few months before workers at a second Apple location in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, unionized with the Communications Workers of America. The second store has not secured a contract with the tech company.<\/p>\n Unions have scored headline-grabbing election wins in recent years, including at an Amazon<\/a> warehouse in New York City, a Chipotle<\/a> store in Michigan and hundreds of Starbucks<\/a> stores across the country. But many of them have not secured contracts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n