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Not a good look for Apple and the property owners since the back of the mall has several barriers and barriers were installed in front of the store after the crash. Will be interesting to see the negotiations and requirements between the mall owners and Apple for the Hingham location. Read elsewhere (can't find now) that the property owners did not want barriers/bollards around store fronts. Apple has several locations with barriers in the form of bollards, planters, fencing, etc.

A recently retired Mass state rep tried for years to mandate protective barriers

In each legislative term since 2013, Carolyn Dykema, a Holliston state representative who left the State Legislature in January, filed a bill that would mandate that barriers be placed between certain parking spaces and retail businesses. Each of her five tries died before reaching a floor vote.

“When you start paying attention, it’s really quite shocking the number of crashes and the frequency of them,” Dykema said when reached by phone on Tuesday.

Looks more and more like an intentional act. Especially since DA Cruz said the 52y.o. driver "was not taken to a hospital" and there is an "active criminal investigation."

Brow-beating and lying will surely push more workers to the pro-union side. The union side already won as they forced Apple to greatly increase pay and expand benefits. That wouldn't have happened without the union talk.

Why is The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers representing Apple retail workers? Because there's strength in numbers and their long-standing expertise and infrastructure. Below is their response after successfully organizing the 1st Apple union at the Towson location

The IAM has launched organizing campaigns in non-traditional industries to grow the strength of the IAM and working families over the past few years, including the Baltimore County Public Library system, tech industry, healthcare, and veterinary medicine. This campaign was an employee-driven campaign from the start and can take credit for Apple’s decision to raise the starting wages for every Apple retail employee across the nation. 

A very stable genius. Not!!

https://fortune.com/2022/11/06/twitter-trying-to-rehire-workers-elon-musk-fired-days-ago-sources-say/

Oops. Twitter is already trying to rehire workers Elon Musk fired days ago, sources say

Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information.