SumOfUs.org plans to hold a protest at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting today in Cupertino, California.
Outside the event, protestors will rally for “ethical labor practices in Apple’s Asian factories” following previous reports of abysmal work place conditions. Inside, consumers and advocates will deliver petitions signed by more than 300,000 uninformed morons whose most demanding daily task is drooling in front of Entertainment Tonight demanding an “ethical iPhone.” During the question and answer period, they will directly ask CEO Tim Cook to commit to ending labor abuses in Apple’s supply chain.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple has no factories in Asia, so this ought to be some rally. While we can hardly wait for Tim Cook’s reply, we’re having even more fun imagining what Steve Jobs’ response would be.
Said SumOfUs.org Executive Director Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman in a press release. “Ethical consumers won’t be fooled by whitewashing by organizations like the Fair Labor Association. We insist that Apple grant truly independent NGOs full access to its factories to truly independent NGOs, not groups funded and controlled by the corporations they’re supposed to monitor.”
MacDailyNews Take: If they don’t already, these idiots ought to go work at Greenpeace and/or Consumer Reports.
Find out more about Apple Supplier Responsibility here.
Related articles:
ABC News ‘Nightline’ airs report on Foxconn factories (with video) – February 22, 2012
Apple supplier Foxconn again lifts pay for China workers; 16-25 percent increase – February 17, 2012
FLA President: Foxconn factories ‘first-class; way, way above average’ – February 15, 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook calls New York Times supplier report ‘patently false and offensive’ – January 27, 2012
Hmmmm, the squatters moved up-town..
Yup. There are clueless “do gooders” everywhere. Too bad they’re usually dumb*sses.
There are do gooders, thankfully. But then there are doofuses, irriTards, The Walking Brain Dead, and the screaming MeeMees. Kind of sad to see the flip side of do gooders in action making fools of themselves. 😯
This is what happens when you clear Ogawa Plaza.
Goddamn hippies…
China is in Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia)
Yes, China is in Asia. But the point is that Apple OWNS no factory in China. A company from China called Foxconn won the bid to manufacture Apple products. It’s not Apple’s company.
And to clarify further, Foxconn assembles products for many different companies, from the U.S., Asia, and other places around the world.
If these nut jobs are soooo committed, why don’t they go to China and protest outside of Foxconn? Oh, yeah, they’re unemployed and have no money, but expect to get free stuff.
more like they would disappear (euphemism for involuntary organ donor) if they decide to protest just right outside of one of many money maker working for Chinese government interest.
I love these uninformed slackivists.
For Pete’s sake give this people some food.
No, then they’ll just demand better food, with wine and really nice tents to shield them from the sun and keep their free sodas cool.
Lobster, wine & cheese.
I wonder if Consumer Reports does evaluations on NPCs? If so have they rated and what is rating of SumOfUs? 🙂
WHOEVER holds the richest is hated most… never changes.
AMERICA always loves the underdog – so SOON they love Microsoft again…
i invite you to look hard at the documentary INSIDE JOB… and see the current administration being run by men who have ripped off US citizens never paying for the crime they have done and continue to do so… a wall street government is a corrupt government – LEAVE APPLE alone and get those who have SCREWED up far bigger on the home land – they do not care about the people.
It didn’t used to be that way. People used to look up to and strive to be like those who had money. Usually it was because (in the case of Apple) that rich person or company had started from nothing like them but had gone on to become successful.
And who is/are BANKROLLING this outfit?
Anyone guess SAMSUNG?
Nah. Samsung are just laughing and enjoying the show.
Ah yes, this is the “slacktivist” group which knowingly kept false information on their website in order to get people riled up.
It’s a shame that deceptive trolls like this get attention, while doing nothing to help the people they’re allegedly speaking for.
But it would be inconvenient for them to inform people of the truth, because then they would have nothing to protest and no way to get attention.
Mom and dad made enough money to fill their homes with disposable income-funded luxuries. Junior had a pleasant childhood in the cul-de-sac, completely oblivious to where the stuff came from.
Junior went off to college, where he was forced to room with someone who had to work since they were 14 and didn’t have any of Junior’s nice things. Junior felt badly that he never had to earn the things he enjoyed, but never so badly that he cut himself off from mom and dad’s support.
As Junior continued his schooling, the void created by his subsidized lifestyle festered. He couldn’t understand why some people had to work so hard while some people didn’t. It seemed so unfair. He wanted to help those who didn’t have what he had, but he couldn’t come to terms with how to do it in a way that wouldn’t compromise how he lived.
One day Junior was reading about some horrible company that used overseas labor to assemble its products for even less pay than his freshman roommate! Fortunately, there were people rallying to improve those peoples’ lives, and all he had to do was fill out an online petition.
You’re a born storyteller. You have a future in political consultancy. (Don’t go if the candidate resembles George Clooney, though)
Someone’s always got to make the thread about politics.
/i keed
“300,000 uninformed morons” — sorry to these people, but this is correct description of them.
They better make petition against the likes of HP, Dell, MS, Samsung — since Apple does much more inspections than them for years already.
Tell SumOfUs to stop taking photos and video with their iPhones during the protest. Kinda looks bad when the gullible news media films them complaining about how iPhones are made while talking, texting, web surfing, and video recording on their iPhones.
Good thing they’re not protesting Galaxy S phones — those factory conditions must really suck!
You’re right, the conditions in the Galaxy S factories must suck. Can you imagine how empty one must feel assembling such uninspired crap?
sumofus changed their petition of poisoning of workers cleaning iPhone glass from n-hexane to ‘isoproponal’ (which was the stuff actually used)
isoproponal is RUBBING ALCOHOL!!
you knew the stuff you can use on children…
sumofus now calls rubbing alchohol a toxin although it was the alternative they first suggested companies use in their earlier petitions…
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/23/sumofusorg_removes_false_claim_from_apple_petition_after_collecting_signatures.html
I went to the SumofUs petition site because I wanted to know what their claims were in order to refute the FUD in the comments section of an article I read.
When I saw the N-Hexane claim, I had all the ammo I needed.
Now that they have changed the claim to isopropanol being a toxin (you would have to drink it), it is quite obvious that this organization is totally misleading the slacktivists in order to grab headlines for itself.
Go away media troll ambulance chasers. Misguided liberals with too much time on their hands.
ScumOfUs…
SumOfUS.org removes false claim from Apple petition after collecting signatures
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/23/sumofusorg_removes_false_claim_from_apple_petition_after_collecting_signatures.html
Press coverage = funding = paychecks. That’s how these guys get paid. No outrage (justified or not) = no paycheck.
Haha love this part!
“300,000 uninformed morons whose most demanding daily task is drooling in front of Entertainment Tonight demanding an “ethical iPhone.”
Yes! We have all been demanding “killer iPhones”, how deluded we have been! Smash them with a hammer, and replace them with an eco-friendly Galaxy S II!
Three guesses as to who they think should be running the reviews, and the first 2 don’t count.
Wonder who is funding these good citizens. Google? Samsung? Micro$oft?
MostOfUs don’t care for SumOfUs.
The point is that abuses are most likely happening at these factories. That’s why they put suicide nets up around their factories. To catch overworked employees who decided its better to hurl themselves off the roof rather than face another day at work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357833/Apple-responds-suicides-Chinese-Foxconn-factory-hanging-nets.html
All companies that use Foxconn factories, not just Apple, are increasing their profits by using this low paid labour, and so helping to perpetuate these abuses. Whether they own these factories or not, these companies have a responsibility to ensure that such things are not happening in their supply chain.
I’m glad to have signed SumOfUs.org’s petition to Apple. Just because I think Apple’s products are great doesn’t mean I will support their labor practices, which help drive down wages and environmental protection around the globe. The barkers on this forum always make it clear that an appreciation for good computers has a very weak correlation with an appreciation for logic, ethics, or basic economics. Speaking of which, is there any truth to the speculation that Rush Limbaugh is editor-in-chief of this forum?