Petitions protest Apple working conditions in China | Bangkok Post: news

Petitions denouncing working conditions at Chinese factories making Apple gadgets were delivered to the California firm's new Grand Central Station store.

A protester leaves the Apple store in Washington, DC on February 9, 2012. Petitions denouncing working conditions at Chinese factories making Apple gadgets were delivered to various Apple Stores in the US. The New York Times reported last month that workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices at factories in China "often labor in harsh conditions" and work "excessive overtime."

"Our goal is to create a dialogue with Apple," said Sarah Ryan of the activist organization Change.org, which along with other groups called for protests Thursday at Apple stores in New York, London and other major cities.