Activists to stage protests at Apple headquarters Feb 9February 8, 2012 - 23:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of Apple customers will show up at Apple's headquarters and stores in D.C., New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore on Feb 9. They will be delivering petitions signed by 250,000 people asking the company to develop a worker protection strategy in response to reported abuse in Chinese supplier factories, Business Insider reports. The renewed interest in Apple's worker policies sprang from an episode of Public Radio International's "This American Life" that aired last month. It was a special report on worker conditions at Apple's manufacturing facilities and workers' conditions. It showed how iPhones are built in part by adolescents working 16 hours a day for 70 cents an hour. Apple CEO Tim Cook has since responded to the uproar, saying in a recent interview, "We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain." Cook also said that Apple now has the Fair Labor Association monitoring its suppliers. According to the report, activists will try to prove their point by wearing iPhone costumes, waving iPhone posters and delivering petitions in Mac boxes. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |