Watchdog Group Forms Petition for ‘Ethical’ iPhone 5

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A new petition is demanding Apple make its next smartphone “the first ethical iPhone,” in light of revelations about deadly working conditions at overseas plants where the devices are manufactured.

Consumer watchdog group SumOfUs has posted a new online petition calling for Apple to “overhaul the way its suppliers treat their workers” before the launch of the iPhone 5, rumored to be coming this summer. More than 35,000 people signed the petition in its first 24 hours, SumOfUs said.

“I use an iPhone myself,” Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director of SumOfUs, said in a statement. “I love it, but I don’t love having to support sweatshops, and neither do millions of other Apple consumers. 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.”

SumOfUs’ campaign follows two reports in The New York Times which shined the spotlight on deadly working conditions at Apple’s supplier facilities in China and questioned whether Cupertino was ignoring such issues in favor of profits. Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, has come under fire time and again in recent years for its unsafe, military-like conditions that have driven workers to despair and suicide.

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  • be smart

    How about stop supporting China, and bring Apple manufacturing back to America… kill two birds with one stone!

  • Myrtlelinder

    Is it Apple's place to control how their suppliers handle their business., their workers???? I go buy groceries, clothing, furniture, and do not who the stores suppliers are! Much less thinking of babysitting them..

  • ricbee

    I picked up a can of mushrooms today at Price Rite,"a product of China". I'd rather go without-I put it back. I will eat no food from that place or wear any of their products,except for flipflops.

  • ricbee

    I check every label & only buy from friends of the USA & Pakistan,because the people are our friends but their leaders aren't.

  • haditinsd

    This problem originates with unions that would rather be out of work than accept a reasonable wage and a government that feeds and houses them while they refuse to work and regulate and taxes business so much they force them to other countries.

  • Barney

    I think a better approach would be for our government to treat these manufacturing companies like we actually want them here. Steve Jobs made it well known that the regulations he faced here are the reason the phones are made elsewhere.

  • Patrick Duffy

    Actually, we need sweatshops in America. CUT OFF THE FOODSTAMPS and WELFARE CHECKS, and then these same people can work assembling IPhones in America. WAKE UP!

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