Jayme Catsouphes' Amazing Podcast

HOST: Apple Store managers in major cities around the world, today, received a stack of papers bearing a quarter million signatures demanding Apple improve working conditions for employees in its manufacturing plants. KALW’s Jayme Catsouphes reports from near San Francisco’s Union Square. -- CATSOUPHES: At Apple’s flagship store in downtown San Francisco, representatives of Change [dot] org and the Apple retail workers union handed the documents to general manager Larry Verder. VERDER [apple store manager] [3:19-:22]: Is that it? That’s quite a bit actually. Well thanks guys, thanks for bringing this up. CATSOUPHES: The petition was inspired by recent reports of workplace abuses in Shenzhen, China, where many high tech components are made. Change [dot] org communications manager Charlotte Hill says she has an iPhone and a MacBook but doesn’t want to be complicit in worker abuses. HILL [1:16-1:33]: 17sec As much as we love Apple we would love it so much more if we could trust that our products were being