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'<br>By Stephen Nellis<br> <br>June 24 (Reuters) - Apple Inc accepts the outcome of a vote by Maryland store workers to become its first U.S.<br>employees to join a union and is ready to bargain with them, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.<br> <br>Apple is one of several major American companies whose workforces have moved to unionize, with workers at some Starbucks Corp and Amazon Inc locations also voting to join a union in recent months.<br> <br>Nearly two-thirds of the employees at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland who organized as the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE), voted to join a union last week.<br><br>The store is the first of Apple's roughly 270 U.S. outlets to do so.<br> <br>The successful vote came after another planned vote in Georgia was called off earlier this year.<br> <br>Apple intends to participate in the bargaining process in "good faith," the person familiar with the matter said.<br> <br>The Maryland employees voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).<br> <br>In a statement, David Sullivan, the union's eastern [http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=territory territory] vice president, said the members "look forward to bargaining with Apple and obtaining a strong first contract that makes positive changes for Apple workers and the customers they are proud to serve."<br> <br>Companies have responded to employee efforts to organize in different ways.<br> <br>Amazon challenged the outcome of a plan to unionize at a warehouse in New York City, while Microsoft Corp's President Brad Smith said in a blog post earlier this month that his company will not resist efforts by employees to organize.<br> <br>Apple employees at a store in Georgia earlier this year had plans to vote on unionization but canceled the vote, with union officers later filing a complaint alleging Apple intimidated its employees.<br><br>Employees at two other [https://www.wiki.npu.edu.ua/index.php?title=%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%87:Sunnyevito Apple] stores in New York are also considering unionization. (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Deepa Babington)<br>'