Dennis RomeroWe've seen some bizarre fashion accessories in this, strange, star-struck town: Chihuahuas, stolen necklaces and adopted babies to name a few. The hottest accoutrement these days seems to an Apple iPad. Because it goes so well with a $1,500 handbag.
But a consumer watchdog wants you to pause before you adopt this new look.
A group called SumOfUs.org has started a campaign in the wake of this week's launch of the latest iPad.
It wants Apple's Chinese factories …
… to release workers' clock-in and clock-out data for the last 4 months to prove that the new iPad was made without forcing workers into illegal and dangerous levels of overtime.
Credit: Apple
The campaign comes amid controversy over working conditions at Chinese plants that manufacture the iPhone, including allegations that Apple “has a track record of putting its workers through grueling night shifts and dangerous levels of overtime to meet its artificial product launch deadlines,” says SumOfUs director Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman.
What can you do?
The group wants you to sign its online petition supporting the release of workers' hourly data.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman:
Consumers are waking up to the consequences of Apple's greed. We don't want products made this way.
That's thinking different.
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