![]() Responses were due a little more than a month later, and only Apple provided one. It included the requirement that the winning tenant paid $5 million for the buyout On May 19, 2011, the transportation authority signed an agreement with Metrazur stipulating that the restaurant would be paid $5 millionįour days later, the transportation authority advertised a request for proposals for the east balcony space in Grand Central Terminal. In July 2009, the report said, the previous tenant, the restaurant Metrazur, approached Apple about a possible buyout of its space, which the restaurant was under contract to lease throughĪpple and Metrazur reached a $5 million lease buyout agreement, the report said. “The M.T.A.’s lease process with Apple was open, transparent, and followed both the spirit and letter of the law.”Īpple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Īccording to the report, which was reported in The New York Post on Monday, the authority and Apple discussed a potential leaseĪs early as November 2008. “The comptroller’s audit staff clearly has no understanding of how high-profile commercial real estate works, given the shockingly inaccurate and clearly biased audit they issued,” Mr. Lhota, the authority’s chairman, strongly defended the agency’s conduct, and accused the comptroller’s office of “overt bias against the M.T.A. “The competitive process that was undertaken was not a level playing field, was not fair to all potential bidders and was significantly slanted in Apple’s favor,” the The report said the authority began discussions with Apple about the space more than two years before issuing a request for proposals, and agreed to specific terms with the previous tenant that afforded Apple an unfair To be awarded the space, according to a report the New York State comptroller’s office released on Monday. The leadership is actually collecting the cards that would authorize employees to hold a vote.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority gave Apple an unfair advantage to place one of its retail stores in Grand Central Terminal by creating a bidding process that made it nearly impossible for anyone but Apple PDT A previous version of this article said the employees were collecting votes. SEE ALSO: Staten Island warehouse workers just voted to form the first Amazon union If Fruit Stand Workers United gets enough yes votes, they would be the first Apple Store to unionize. ![]() Earlier in 2021, corporate Apple employees joined with retail workers to launch the #AppleToo movement, which is collecting and publicizing stories of workplace inequality. On Christmas Eve, Apple Store workers staged a walkout to protest working conditions. Grand Central workers said Apple has been lobbying at the stores against unionization.Įmployee organization efforts have been heating up at Apple over the last year. Employees at three other Apple Store locations are working to unionize, according to WaPo. Now, the store employees are collecting employee signature cards that would authorize employees to hold a union vote.īut union activity is reportedly not limited to the Grand Central store. The Grand Central workers have launched a website that says the aim of organizing is "to ensure our team has the best possible standards of living in what have proven to be extraordinary times." The website says the organizing committee comprises around 10 percent of Grand Central workers. They have organized under the name "Fruit Stand Workers United," with the Workers United union (the same union workers at Starbucks stores have organized under). Workers at the Grand Central Apple Store are working to form a union, the Washington Post reports. The labor movement has officially come to Apple. ![]() The Apple logo affixed to the side of a building.
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