By Ansu Konneh
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.’s Liberian rubber plantation, one of the world’s largest, will increase workers’ pay by 19.5 percent, backdated to January last year, a union official said.
The accord, the first to be signed by Firestone with its workers in Liberia in the 80 years it has operated in the west African [...]

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By Fatoumata Fofana
MONROVIA, At long last, the Firestone Agricultural Workers’ Union of Liberia (FAWUL) and the management of the Firestone Rubber Plantations Company have reached an agreement, wherein key areas of benefits including increment in wages for the workers would be granted.
During a brief meeting on Monday, August 4, 2008 with [...]

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By J. Nathaniel Daygbor
The Firestone Rubber Plantation Company in Harbel, Margibi County is making claims of gains it is making in its activities since the sitting of the Ellen-led government, such as housing and education, but a local environmental group thinks otherwise.
Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU) says the company is abusing its [...]

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By James Butty
Human rights activists will hold a demonstration Wednesday in Washington in front of a public relations office representing the Bridgestone/Firestone Rubber Company. Today’s protest comes on the heel of a new report which accuses the company of a wide range of abuses on its plantation in [...]

As John Tuohy’s recent article shows (”300 to lose jobs when Bridgestone Firestone shuts Noblesville plant in ‘09,” June 30), the tire company has little respect for the rights of its workers.
The Firestone Industrial Products representative even explicitly says that part of the reason for closing the plant is because it is its only unionized [...]