Cher Scarlett, one of the leaders of the #AppleToo employment protest movement, has backflipped on her settlement with Apple, and reinstated a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board.
The complaint, filed in September, alleges that the company illegally tried to block employees from discussing their pay. As part of a later settlement, Scarlett agreed to withdraw the official complaint.
Now, Scarlett has indicated she is no longer willing to do this, as Apple hasn’t lived up to its end of the deal.
“One of the requests I made was for there to be a very public, visible affirmation that employees are allowed to discuss their workplace conditions and compensation, both internally and externally,” Scarlett said.
The company did post such an affirmative, but buried it during the Thanksgiving break, then removed it altogether once employees were back at work.
“It was only up for a week that they gave everybody in the company off,” Scarlett says.
Apple also failed to make changes to the settlement document that were requested by the National Labor Relations Board.
Apple requested that Scarlett “not solicit, encourage or incite anyone to file any charge or complaint with any administrative agency or Court against Apple,” language that the NLRB requested Apple softens.
It “was suppressive of my rights to help other employees organise, help them file charges if they’ve been wronged or witnessed unlawful activity,” Scarlett says.