Some Apple workers are attempting to stage a walkout on Christmas Eve.
Spotted by Zoë Schiffer from NBC News, a group called Apple Together has posted to Twitter asking for fellow Apple employees to walk out of their offices and stores on the day before Christmas.
Calling all Apple workers and patrons!
Tomorrow, December 24th, 2021, Apple workers are staging a walkout/callout to demand better working conditions.
Don’t cross the picket line.
The group has a website where it has written the following message:
At Apple, we make incredible products and services. We pour ourselves into that work, whether we are enriching customers’ lives at the Apple Store, animating rain for the next Keynote, plating lunch at Caffè Macs, or chatting with a customer to transfer their family videos from their iPhone to their MacBook.
Apple prides itself on its commitment to diversity, equity, and an environment where everyone can do their best work. But Apple has fallen short of this goal for so many of our current and former teammates, so we made space to share those stories with #AppleToo.
In Slack, we have written letters together to make requests of our leadership. However, we’re seeing an increase of rules restricting our ability to continue collaborating on workplace issues that are important to us. We’re making our own space off of our virtual campus to ensure our voices can still be heard.
Apple celebrates its footprint of over 2.4 million workers. That’s us: including more than 100,000 direct employees in the United States working under 22 executives.
It’s time to think equitable at Apple—together.
It’s currently unclear how widespread the walkout will be. We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see how effective the effort is with the company’s office and retail staff.
