"As for the slavery charges, if they're true, the company should be boycotted."
I doubt this would be company policy to use slave labor. I would think it is just the normal corruption by the locals that was just not noticed or passed up the chain of command. Liberia isn`t exactly the shining example of a country that puts human rights in the forfront.
But then, in the world today, you never know until you get the facts. But my bet it was a local, low level problem.
Sorry-Liberia has a record of human rights abuses. Firestone does business there because of their record. They want to pay as little as possible...if Firestone doesn't know, it's because they don't want to know. Anyone with half a brain knows third world counties use slave labor and child labor. I don't get it. If American companies stay in the US, they will go bankrupt-no way you can compete with countries willing to murder and abuse their own people during the manufacturing process, but if
American companies try to cut costs and use third world countries to manufacture, they get sued. Why is no one suing Chinese companies?