The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found merit to complaints that high-level executives at Apple violated national labor law. This finding comes after the NLRB also found that Apple illegally interfered with labor organizing at retail stores in New York City and Atlanta.
These charges were filed by Ashley Gjøvik, a former senior engineer program manager at Apple.
In an email to TechCrunch, Gjøvik explained that Apple employment policies “coercively silence Apple employees and chill them from engaging in protected activity through over-broad and vague terms, as well as through an implication of constant surveillance.”
Gjøvik submitted a number of documents as part of her NLRB complaint, including an email from CEO Tim Cook. After a journalist live-tweeted an Apple all hands meeting in September 2021, Cook sent a memo to staff expressing frustration about leaks to the media.
“I want to reassure you that we are doing everything in our power to identify those who leaked. As you know, we …
