Apple to build $304 million campus in Texas, add 3,600 jobs
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is expanding its presence in Texas with a $304 million investment to build a new campus in Austin, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its workforce in the city.
The Cupertino, California, consumer device giant already employs thousands in Austin, whose tasks include handling customer complaints and support.
"Our operations in Austin has grown dramatically over the past decade from less than 1,000 in 2004 to more than 3,500 today," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said.
Apple plans to add jobs in customer support, sales and accounting.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/apple-build-304-million-campus-texas-add-3-174432345.html
bloomington-lib
(946 posts)Texas is a "right to work" state.
jschurchin
(1,456 posts)Then again, Foxconn might be a union shop. But I really doubt it.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)But the rest are all non-union, I believe.
In fact, only 5.2% of Texas employees of all employers are union members.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t05.htm
Table 5. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by state
Only 1.2% of private sector employees working in professional and technical services are union member.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm
Table 3. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by occupation and industry
I can't think of a high tech company started in the last 50 years that has a union workforce.
christx30
(6,241 posts)they are going to build in Austin. A job at all is more important than a Union job, at least to me. My first day at my new job, where I'll be making as much as I was making at Dell, is next Monday. I'm super excited. But we need more technology places here in town.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)spooky3
(34,475 posts)Synicus Maximus
(860 posts)union
Thrill
(19,178 posts).
jschurchin
(1,456 posts)Unfortunatly, Apple would have to pay a real wage, instead of 35 cents an hour. I just don't see that happening.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)DLCistheGOP
(14 posts)I know I do not knowingly purchase products made by slave labor, made by non-union labor or made in the South.
To me being a Democrat means not only do I support things like unions, I also put my money where my mouth is.
There are Dems who have courage of conviction and those who are Democrats when it is convenient.
Which one are you?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Apple is an American company and at the very least, employs tens of thousands, and by extension, hundreds of thousands in the U.S.