HARBEL, Liberia—With more than 90 percent of the vote, third-party contract workers with Firestone Liberia L.L.C. have voted to unionize with the Firestone Agricultural Workers' Union of Liberia. The ...

Rubber tappers can collect up to six buckets of latex liquid in a day Rubber manufacturer Firestone has been accused of buying rubber from plantations illegally occupied by ex-combatants from ...

The Task Force Section of the Plant Protection Department of Firestone Liberia and the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) have begun a joint patrol within the concession area of Firestone ...

Workers tapping rubber at the Firestone plantation in Liberia are struggling for better wages and working conditions—and pushing their employer to stop polluting the land and water they rely on. By ...

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 ...

The introduction of contract tapping and a new mode of measurement known as the K-factor or the correction factor, which measures the weight of rubber dispatched from the field, has become a ...

HARBEL, Liberia—Firestone Liberia, the indirect natural rubber-growing subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, is laying off approximately 500 workers at its plantation in Harbel. This represents about 7 ...

Criminals gangs have hit Liberia’s largest rubber plantation, Firestone. The gangs have been illicitly tapping the trees at the company’s plantation 45 miles outside of Monrovia. The result is a loss ...

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit an article to the Opinion Section, click here. In 1944, the Firestone Tire & Rubber ...