NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) today announced its Firestone Liberia natural rubber growing and processing facility earned the International ...

HARBEL, Liberia -- They come in broad daylight, with guns, machetes, knives and buckets of acid. The invaders of Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire's rubber plantation in Liberia are hunting ...

On June 27, aggrieved workers at the Belgian-French firm Socfin’s rubber plantation in Liberia burned the company’s headquarters and its manager’s private residence. The unrest followed a five-day ...

HARBEL, Liberia—A two-day strike by workers at Firestone Liberia L.L.C. that began Jan. 30 has "been paused" in an ongoing labor dispute with the company. Firestone Liberia is the West African ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For sixteen years, Eric Fatoma seldom ventured beyond the boundaries of Firestone’s ...

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 ...

A recent report published by the World Bank says Liberia's economy grew by 4.0 percent in 2024 with the agricultural sector accounting for 3.4 percent, a notable improvement from 1.4 percent in ...

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Residents of Margibi County, particularly in Districts four and five, have praised Indian businessman Upjit Singh Sachdeva, popularly known as Mr. Jeety, for creating employment opportunities and ...

Re “An empire of rubber and dashed dreams of Black prosperity in Liberia” (Ideas, May 27): Growing up in Akron, Ohio, we took for granted rubber as the city’s economic engine. We didn’t ask, nor were ...

On a warm January day in 1924, W.E.B. Du Bois looked out over an abandoned plantation, a forest of more than 200,000 rubber trees, in neat rows, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The ...