Firestone Liberia wins case in appeals court

摘要

CHICAGO-An appeals court has upheld a federal district court's rejection of a child labor lawsuit against Firestone Natural Rubber Co. L.L.C., but said the lower court erred in ruling the plaintiff had no standing to sue under U.S. laws. The International Labor Rights Fund sued Firestone in 2005 on behalf of 23 Liberian children. The lawsuit-later continued by the International Rights Advocates, an offshoot of the ILRF- claimed the company sanctioned child labor at its natural rubber plantation near Harbel, Liberia, and also kept workers in conditions and pay scales that amounted to slave labor.