FIGHTING MODERN SLAVERY

It gives them a 24 percent wage increase retroactive to January 2007, a 20 percent reduction in the number of trees they must tap for latex each day and mechanized transportation to convey latex to weigh stations so workers no longer must walk for miles lugging tremendous loads yoked to their backs....

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Published inPittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978)
Main Author Gerard, Leo W
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh, Pa Pittsburgh Post - Gazette 28.09.2008
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Environmental law
Investigations
Labor contracts
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Summary:It gives them a 24 percent wage increase retroactive to January 2007, a 20 percent reduction in the number of trees they must tap for latex each day and mechanized transportation to convey latex to weigh stations so workers no longer must walk for miles lugging tremendous loads yoked to their backs. Bridgestone, the parent company of Firestone, which pocketed a profit of $1.16 billion last year worldwide, paid its 10,300 Liberian rubber workers between $2.65 and $3.38 a day -- if they met the quota of tapping 750 trees, collected the latex in buckets weighing 75 pounds each and carried it for miles on their shoulders to weigh stations.
ISSN:1068-624X