Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won’t get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via a collective bargaining arrangement (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won’t get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via a collective bargaining arrangement  —  Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store …

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Apple’s unionized Maryland store filed a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers (Bloomberg)

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Apple’s unionized Maryland store filed a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers  —  Apple Inc.’s unionized retail store in Maryland is filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after it was excluded …

Sources: Apple will launch new iPad Pros with M2 chip this month, and is working on a Mac mini with M2, Apple TV with A14, and a new entry-level iPad with USB-C (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will launch new iPad Pros with M2 chip this month, and is working on a Mac mini with M2, Apple TV with A14, and a new entry-level iPad with USB-C  —  Apple’s next product launch is just days away.  Also: The company withholds new employee benefits from its unionized retail store …

Sources: Apple’s VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple’s VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades  —  Apple Inc.’s top executives in charge of its online retail store and information-systems divisions are stepping down …

Seattle-based Swiftly, which offers branded apps and retail software to grocery stores, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B+ valuation after raising $100M in March (Tony Lystra/GeekWire)

Tony Lystra / GeekWire:
Seattle-based Swiftly, which offers branded apps and retail software to grocery stores, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B+ valuation after raising $100M in March  —  Retail software provider Swiftly raised $100 million in a Series C funding round, helping the company become the latest Seattle-area startup …

The UK’s CMA details its concerns with Microsoft’s Activision acquisition, including withholding games from rivals; Microsoft argues Sony is the dominant player (Christopher Dring/GamesIndustry.biz)

Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz:
The UK’s CMA details its concerns with Microsoft’s Activision acquisition, including withholding games from rivals; Microsoft argues Sony is the dominant player  —  The CMA expects the deal to impact PlayStation and game streaming  —  The Competition and Markets Authority has detailed …

The Reserve Bank of India plans to launch a retail pilot for its CBDC on December 1, after testing with nine banks since November 1 (Swati Bhat/Reuters)

Swati Bhat / Reuters:
The Reserve Bank of India plans to launch a retail pilot for its CBDC on December 1, after testing with nine banks since November 1  —  The Reserve Bank of India’s first pilot for a retail e-rupee, its version of the central bank digital currency (CBDC), will be launched on Dec. 1, it said in a statement on Tuesday.