

Apple to STOP abusing sweatshop workers


Apple to STOP abusing sweatshop workers
The issue
Imagine living your life on little over 1 pound an hour, with an entry salary of 180 pounds a month. Imagine working tirelessly for up to 16 hours a day to come home to a small crowded room shared with your work colleagues, deprived of privacy, rest and leisure. This is the appalling reality of employees of Apple's sweatshops, whose worker’s rights continue to be abused every day.
2 months of work would enable an Apple sweatshop employee to purchase Apple's cheapest iPad on the market, without considering the realistic variables like providing life’s necessities for one’s family.
The draining work hours leading its employees to fatigue caused nine workers to commit suicide in the space of three months. The Nightline documentary filmed by ABC found in 2009, after losing an iPhone prototype, a Foxconn employee jumped off an apartment building. 18 other employees were associated with attempted suicides over the next two years. The documentary displays suicide nets surrounding the building in order to prevent worn-out and drained workers from ‘leaping to their deaths.’
The aim of this petition is to raise awareness of how Apple's sweatshops exploit and abuse their workers. With exposure and the aid of many signatures, we hope to make Apple aware that their customers care about the ethical production of their products, and will not support the company any further unless worker's conditions improve drastically.

The issue
Imagine living your life on little over 1 pound an hour, with an entry salary of 180 pounds a month. Imagine working tirelessly for up to 16 hours a day to come home to a small crowded room shared with your work colleagues, deprived of privacy, rest and leisure. This is the appalling reality of employees of Apple's sweatshops, whose worker’s rights continue to be abused every day.
2 months of work would enable an Apple sweatshop employee to purchase Apple's cheapest iPad on the market, without considering the realistic variables like providing life’s necessities for one’s family.
The draining work hours leading its employees to fatigue caused nine workers to commit suicide in the space of three months. The Nightline documentary filmed by ABC found in 2009, after losing an iPhone prototype, a Foxconn employee jumped off an apartment building. 18 other employees were associated with attempted suicides over the next two years. The documentary displays suicide nets surrounding the building in order to prevent worn-out and drained workers from ‘leaping to their deaths.’
The aim of this petition is to raise awareness of how Apple's sweatshops exploit and abuse their workers. With exposure and the aid of many signatures, we hope to make Apple aware that their customers care about the ethical production of their products, and will not support the company any further unless worker's conditions improve drastically.

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Petition created on 31 August 2016