Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland

Apple has entered into a preliminary collective bargaining agreement with the the company’s first union shop in the country.

The International Association of Machinists and the Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents workers at a Maryland store, announced Friday night that they had reached a three-year agreement with the company that will increase wages by an average of 10 percent and provide other benefits to workers.

The deal must be approved by about 85 employees of the store, located in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, with a vote scheduled for Aug. 6.

“By reaching a tentative agreement with Apple, we are giving our members a voice in their future and a strong first step toward continued gains,” the union’s bargaining committee said in a statement. “Together, we can build on this success in store after store.”

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The deal came about after employees at the store approved a strike in Mayand said discussions with management lasting more than a year had not produced “satisfactory results.”

The Maryland store is one of two unionized Apple facilities in the country. Workers voted to unionize in June 2022, months before workers at a second Apple facility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, joined the Communications Workers of America. The second store has failed to secure a contract with the tech company.

Unions have won notable electoral victories in recent years, including at an Amazon warehouse in New York City, a Chipotle store in Michigan and hundreds of Starbucks stores across the country. But many of them have failed to win contracts.