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Apple fans plead for workers' rights

Apple users with ethical demands have gathered at stores around the world, to request a change in the company's production standards.

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Apple users with ethical demands have gathered at stores around the world, to request a change in the company's production standards.

In Sydney - as well as in the US, India and Europe -fans delivered a combined 250,000 petitions to get the company to act on conditions in the factory of its Chinese supplier, Foxconn.

Both Apple and Foxconn have been under fire for a spate of suicides and accidents at the firm's plant in Chengdu, China.

Susan Culph of Change.org, which delivered 200,000 of the signatures, told SBS she'd like to see an ethical iPhone.

"'We'd like Apple to take into account all the concerns raised by the supporters who signed the petition."

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