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A Glasgow Apple Store has become the first in the United Kingdom to vote to unionize, a move that is being called a "historic moment" by representatives.The vote now means that those who work at the Glasgow Buchanan Street store will be part of the GMB Scotland union after an overwhelming vote in favor of the move. Apple has agreed to a voluntary recognition of the ballot.The first of manyThe Herald reports that while the Scottish store was the first in the UK to choose to unionize, it's unlikely to be the last. "It is…

Workers at an Apple Store in Glasgow, Scotland, voted on Wednesday to unionize. The vote came after “several” months of negotiations that eventually saw Apple agree to recognize the ballot voluntarily. According to The Herald, employees at the company’s Buchanan Street location, one of two stores Apple operates in Scotland’s most populous city, voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of joining the GMB Union. With the historic vote, the retail location is now on track to become the first unionized Apple Store in the United…

In 2019, Andrew Fleming-Brown realised that the venue he manages in Glasgow, called SWG3, a collection of industrial warehouses “designed for holding tobacco, not people”, was falling behind when it came to sustainability. Then he had an idea: “We realised that our audiences could be our source of energy.”He recruited inventor David Townsend and his company TownRock Energy to investigate greening the complex and, in just over a year, they developed and built Bodyheat: a system that provides carbon-free climate control by…

Liverpool and Glasgow are the two cities that remain in the competition to host the Eurovision song contest in 2023, when it will be held in the UK for the first time in 25 years.The two cities were selected after Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester were removed from contention to host the music event. The BBC said a final decision would be made “within weeks”.The Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra triumphed at the 2022 competition in Turin, Italy, which would normally make Ukraine the 2023 host, but the…

Clare Grogan, singer-songwriterEverything happened very quickly for us. When we started the band, the boys were all picking up their instruments for the first time. I borrowed a Cinderella dress from the school drama club and wore it at the Futurama festival in Leeds. John Peel saw us and everything went off. Bill Forsyth had already spotted me waitressing and wanted me to be in his new film, so the summer I left school I signed to Epic Records and made Gregory’s Girl.We had a No 2 smash with Happy Birthday and naively…

Building on decades of rave history north of the border, Glasgow-hailing DJ and producer BETH is gearing up to release her brand new single, “Get 2gether”, a big, full-bodied number built on a wall of gut-shifting low-end.There’s plenty more to it than just bass—although there is plenty of that here—at the track’s heart, there’s also a rousing, soulful vocal sample that builds to a euphoric climax. Putting a modern, Ibiza-ready spin on some classic elements from the house music canon, it should come as no surprise that…

Writing a crime novel now appears to be a well-established rung on the career ladder of white male television entertainers, achieved with varying degrees of success and skill, so it’s a relief to find that Frankie Boyle’s first work of fiction is an enjoyably dark and entertaining tranche of Glasgow noir. It contains all the deft wordplay you’d expect of him, and a few well-aimed, drive-by satirical shots at political targets along the way.Set in the aftermath of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Meantime is…

Apple store workers in Glasgow have reportedly joined a trade union in Scotland and have filed for Voluntary Union Recognition with Apple. As reported by Glasgow Times Friday: GLASGOW Apple store staff are about to make history by becoming the first branch in the UK to unionise. Workers at a handful of the technology giant's American shops have applied in recent weeks for union recognition. But workers here are leading the charge in the UK having filed for Voluntary Union Recognition with Apple after joining GMB…

Douglas Stuart’s debut novel, ‘Shuggie Bain’, which won the Booker Prize 2020 last night, is the embodiment of an oxymoron. It is tender at heart yet ferocious in essence as it traces the complex relationship arc of a young boy (Shuggie Bain) and his mother (Agnes Bain), who is an alcohol addict. With its many intricate details, the novel paints a graphic and authentic picture of the 1980s’ impoverished Glasgow neighbourhood, and the deep disappointment and resentment that Agnes feels on being unable to escape it. Agnes…