As sports fans gear up for the NFL Super Bowl next week, the Halftime show sponsor, Bridgestone/Firestone, continues to exploit workers on its rubber plantation in Liberia.
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The majority of workers who labor as “rubber tappers” must carry two heavy buckets of raw latex weighing 75 pounds each on both [...]
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Since 1926, Bridgestone Firestone has operated the world’s largest rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia. Workers on the plantation have long faced incredibly poor living and working conditions. Firestone rubber tappers live in crowded shacks without running water, electricity or indoor latrines and are required to meet [...]
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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 [...]
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