|
| |
Home (13077 companies) > Japan (524 companies) > Tires (5 companies) >
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc.
Bridgestone Firestone belongs to |
| shareholder | country % source |
|
|
name  items photo compare the prices |
Shop local, ethical and at the best price on Ethishop ! |
|
|
« ETHICAL » RATING OF BRIDGESTONE_FIRESTONE
, group
Bridgestone Corp.
and subsidiaries
[click on the images below or on help for more information] |
| Job: 2% of company's jobs cut since 1998 |
| Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 3 offshore financial center(s) |
| Sales: more than 22 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales |
| Net profit: more than 3 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 |
| Top management: earns 19 times the median income in the United States (32000 US$/year) |
| Advertising & marketing: 1 dubious practice(s) |
|
|
World locations & Manufacturing |
year | dubious practice : image source |
| 1993 | slogan: All road hazard.; |  |
|
|
| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2006 | | The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) filed a lawsuit charging that thousands of workers, including minors, toil in virtual slavery at Bridgestone's Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia. "I have seen six people living in one room, without any toilet, electricity, or running water," Jerome Verdier, an environmental lawyer from Liberia. In many cases, activists say, Firestone overseers not only know about the massive use of child labor, but also compel it. "Workers are told that if they can't make their daily quota, they should put their children to work," the lawsuit charges. "They work for $3.19 a day and work close to 20 hours every day," Verdier told a news conference at the U.N. headquarter. Most plantation workers, according to the lawsuit, remain "at the mercy of Firestone for everything from food to health care to education. They risk expulsion and starvation if they raise even minor complaints, and the company makes willful use of this situation to exploit these workers as they have since 1926." The 240 square-mile plantation has an official workforce of 6,000, out of which at least 4,000 are reportedly facing extremely inhumane conditions.: Liberia | Corriere D.  |
|
| year | country : consequences source |
| 2005 | brand: Firestone : "Firestone should compensate the Government of Liberia a total amount of US$79 million (1 million for each year of operation) for environmental damages, especially the pollution of the Farmington River", Dr Fromah, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency said, also recommended that the company and other international producers and buyers provide means where rubber is now purchased in the latex state to avoid treatment with sulfuric acid or other toxic organic compounds. | All Africa |
|
|
|
|
Also announce a documentary, a book or an article or comment this company profile.
Goal: present the company activities, improve the ethical rating's accuracy, develop an network of observers.