Apple workers mull collective bargaining push

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Some of Apple Computer Inc's professional employees consider a collective bargaining policy in reaction to the computer maker's decision to layoff 10 percent of its workforce. Any sort of collective bargaining is rare in the computer and other high technology industries, especially among professional workers. Those involved in Employees for One Apple want more influence over management and personnel policies. The group has a variety of methods in mind for gaining more voice in the running of the company: electing an employee to the board of directors, buying and controlling a sizeable amount of Apple's stock, establishing German-style work councils, and collective bargaining or unionization. The latter is considered the most difficult to affect among professionals like engineers. Employees for One Apple have met with Chmn John Sculley.

Computers, peripherals & software, Planning, Collective bargaining, Layoffs, Layoff, Employee Relations, Profession, Unions

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Apple says top U.S. sales aide to work part time; Dionne to succeed Coldrick

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Apple Computer Inc's top US sales executive William B. Coldrick, 48, is moving to part-time status barely a year after Apple gave him a $2.1 million compensation package for staying with the company. Michael Dionne, vice president of Apple's Southwestern sales operations, will succeed William B. Coldrick as senior vice president of sales for Apple USA. Mr. Coldrick, who has been with Apple since 1982, indicated that his personal life and family are taking priority over his position at Apple and denied rumors that he was stripped of his position because of weak revenue growth.

Employment, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Computer Industry, Personnel Management, Dionne, Michael, Coldrick, William B.

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