Janneke Parrish

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Janneke Parrish
Parrish in 2021
Born1991 or 1992 (age 32–33)
[1]
Pennsylvania
Alma mater
OccupationProgram manager
Known forWorkers' rights advocacy
Notable work#AppleToo movement
Websitejannekeparrish.com

Janneke Parrish (born 1990 or 1991) is an American program manager and workers' rights activist living in the Netherlands. She was one of two leaders of the #AppleToo movement, which gathered and shared stories of maltreatment of workers at Apple Inc. Parrish was investigated and subsequently fired over a leaked recording of a company town hall and when asked to return company-owned devices without deleting anything from them, she removed personal apps and work-related files. She has since filed a complaint against Apple with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging the investigation and firing were retaliation for her work with #AppleToo.

Parrish was defeated in a run for city council in Round Rock, Texas in 2021. In 2022, she wrote a viral chain of tweets about her experiences with a miscarriage in Texas during Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Personal life and education

Parrish was born in Pennsylvania to an American father and Dutch mother, a nurse practitioner,[2] who immigrated to the United States.[3] Parrish is American,[4] but lives in the Sassenheim to attend law school at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.[5][6]

Parrish attended Rosewood High School[7] and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.[8] She then went on to attend North Carolina State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religious studies with a minor in Middle East studies. She also holds a Master of Science in Human Rights and International Politics from the University of Glasgow.[9][10][1]

In 2017, Parrish attempted a third round of egg donations, but was unable. She learned from her physician she was in early menopause, which causes infertility in women. She said she did not intend to have children.[1]

Parrish became an advocate for abortion rights after having an abortion at 19 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2022, a chain of tweets she wrote about her experiences with a miscarriage while on contraceptives in Texas went viral.[2][5] Her story raised questions for physicians about whether women will avoid emergency care for pregnancy-related symptoms for fear they will be charged with a crime.[11]

2021 city council run

In January 2021, Parrish announced her run for place 3 of the Round Rock City Council.[12] Parrish was endorsed by the progressive organization Run for Something.[13] She lost this election to incumbent Matt Baker.[14]

Career at Apple and organizing

See also: AppleToo and Apple and unions

Parrish worked in Austin, Texas[15] on the Apple Maps team for five years, first as a data analyst in 2015,[1] and then as a program manager.[16]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Parrish advocated for remote work by participating in the authoring an open letter to Apple leadership.[17][18] Parrish worked with Cher Scarlett and other anonymous employees in the #AppleToo movement, which gathered and shared stories of alleged discrimination, racism, sexism, and sexual misconduct at the company.[16][19] Parrish performed analysis of the stories to create statistics that could track what the stories were about.[20] Scarlett and Parrish published some of the stories on Medium, which gained national attention.[21][18] Scarlett said they collected more than 500 stories by the end of August,[22] more than 300 of which were in the first 48 hours.[23]

Suspension and firing

Parrish was one of the authors of the #AppleToo open letter, a letter sent to Tim Cook and Apple leadership asking for changes to address what had been reported in the #AppleToo digests.[24] At an all-hands meeting in September 2021, Parrish and other #AppleToo organizers asked leadership to address questions about pay equity, remote work, vaccination rules, and options for employees in states with restrictive abortion laws. A recording from a company-wide meeting was leaked to the press on September 17, 2021 containing details about the answers to the activists' questions.[25][26][27]

Parrish was placed under investigation for the leak and suspended.[28] She was questioned over video conference, and shortly afterward, she said a courier arrived at her home to collect her company-owned devices.[29] Prior to turning them over to the courier, Parrish deleted apps from the phone such as Pokémon Go, Robinhood, and Google Drive, which she said she was embarrassed about. She also deleted screenshots off of the computer she said were of innocuous things like programming bugs.[16][15] She told The Verge in an interview that Apple encourages employees to use their work phones as their personal phones.[30] Other employees, including program manager Ashley Gjøvik, also said this.[31] Her personal phone was not confiscated.[29] Parrish continued to post the digests after she was placed under investigation by Apple.[32]

Parrish was fired on October 14, 2021. Apple said she was terminated for "interfering with an investigation by deleting files on your company provided equipment after being specifically instructed not to do so."[15][28] Parrish filed an unfair labor practice charge against Apple in November 2021, alleging that her firing was in response to her organizing.[33][29] The charge alleged that the investigation and subsequent suspension and termination were "based upon false and pretextual reasons." Parrish said she did not leak any information.[23]

Subsequent activity

Some corporate workers involved in the organizing of #AppleToo, including Parrish, founded Apple Together, a solidarity union within Apple.[34] The #AppleToo stories also spawned similar movements, such as #GeToo, which refers to General Electric,[35] and served as a source of information for future shareholder action within Apple.[36] In the wake of Texas' passage of SB8, Parrish also wrote and distributed an open letter to Apple employees, asking Apple to ensure abortion access for its workers, and to consider speaking out against the law on behalf of its Texan employees. Parrish continues to be involved with Apple Together.[5]

Parrish self-published a book called The Tech Worker's Guide to Unions in 2023. It contains a framework for building a union at organizations of any size and guides organizers on American labor law.[37]

Publications

  • Parrish, Janneke (May 27, 2014). "How to build a nation: examining the role of truth commissions in transitional societies" (PDF). eSharp (22). The University of Glasgow.
  • Parrish, Janneke (December 15, 2023). The Tech Worker's Guide to Unions. ISBN 9789083386942.

See also

References

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