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Stop Firestone Campaign Discussion
By: LaborRights
Posted: Aug 5 08
Witnessed: 2245 veces
Regions: Africa, Liberia, West Africa
Issues: Child labor, Labor, Slavery & forced labor
Tags: Africa, child labor, corporate accountability, corporations, Firestone, labor, Liberia, union, workers, workers rights
Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, moderates a discussion at the Institute for Policy Studies on the Stop Firestone Campaign with Edwin Cisco (Secretary General of the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia) and Christian Levesque (Conrad & Scherer).
Check out http://www.StopFirestone.org for more information.
Take action here: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/firestone
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