14 DAY TRIAL // SumOfUs.org, the people behind the “ethical iPhone 5” move, and Change.org have teamed up to barge into several US Apple stores at 10 a.m. (local time) and deliver petitions signed by 250,000 people asking the company to improve worker conditions at its overseas partners – particularly those who assemble its iPhone.
The signatures collected by Change.org and SumOfUs.org hope to raise awareness that Apple is not doing everything in its power to ensure that the people who make its products in China are being fairly treated.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director of SumOfUs, admitted to using an iPhone. In fact, the director said he loved it, “but I don’t love having to support sweatshops, and neither do millions of other Apple consumers," he reported.
"The hip, educated market that Apple aspires to corner is largely composed of responsible consumers who don’t want to be complicit in sweatshop labor. Apple’s attention to detail is famous, and the only way they could fail to be aware of dozens of worker deaths, of child labor, of exposure to neurotoxins is through willful ignorance," Mr. Taren said.