The United Steelworkers (USW) today hailed the signing of a landmark labor agreement between FAWUL (Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia) and Firestone. The new collective bargaining agreement covers more than 4,000 union members and provides significant gains for workers at one of the world’s largest rubber plantations.
Contract highlights include wage increases of 24 percent [...]

INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM | INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
For Immediate Release
August 6, 2008
Contact: Tim Newman, tim.newman[at]ilrf.org, 202-347-4100 x113
Emira Woods, emira[at]ips-dc.org, 301-523-2979
FIRESTONE WORKERS IN LIBERIA SIGN HISTORIC CONTRACT
New Contract is a Major Victory for International Campaign Against Firestone
Workers on the world’s largest rubber plantation owned by Firestone in Liberia will sign a new collective bargaining agreement [...]

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After 82 years of exploitation, workers on Firestone’s rubber plantation in Liberia have finally signed a new collective bargaining agreement with company management. It has been a long struggle for workers to achieve independent and democratically elected union leadership and for the first time, they have [...]

Check out our new campaign video here!
In this video, Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, moderates a discussion at the Institute for Policy Studies on the Stop Firestone Campaign with Edwin Cisco (Secretary General of the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia) and Christian Levesque (Conrad & Scherer).
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Check out lots of photos from the protest here!
Yesterday, the Stop Firestone coalition held a protest outside of the DC office of Public Strategies, Inc.  Public Strategies is the public relations firm which represents Firestone.  They publicly distort Firestone’s long history of exploitation on their rubber plantation in Liberia.  Activists in DC rallied outside of [...]