An employee arranges Apple iPhones as customer shop at an Apple store.
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Employees at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland voted Saturday to join a union, a significant achievement for organized labor that could encourage employees at other Apple stores to unionize. The Towson store is the first unionized Apple store in the U.S.
The vote is a defeat for Apple, which has opposed unionization efforts, and could energize workers at…