EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how Firestone forces families of dead Ebola victims to leave their homes

UK Daily Mail ^ | 07:38 EST, 21 November 2014 | Updated: 07:44 EST, 21 November 2014 Read more: http://www.dailymail | Gethin Chamberlain In Monrovia For Mailonline

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EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how American tyre giant Firestone forces families of dead Ebola victims to leave their homes on Liberian plantation

• Children who lived with Ebola-victim parents are thrown off plantation

• Now 57 have died on giant factory-plant near Ebola hotspot Monrovia

• Tyre-maker is one of world's biggest and pays its workers $5 a day

• Relatives of the dead get $1,900 and a bag of rice but no pension

• But Firestone say they have treated families well: 'We are in this together'

  "Tyre giant Firestone has ordered the children of workers who died from Ebola to leave their homes on its plantation in Liberia.

  The company - part of the Bridgestone group which last week announced sales for the first nine months of the year totaling £14.5 billion - has told the families they cannot stay on in worker housing and will not get pensions.

  At least 57 people have died on Firestone's giant plantation near the national capital Monrovia since the start of the outbreak in March.

  The dead include nine workers, plus family members and people living around the edges of the site who sought treatment at the company's medical facility.

  Family of workers who died are entitled to a one-off payment of $1,900 [£1,200] and a bag of rice.

[NativeSon]

don’t worry, they have the Right to come to America!

[knarf]

evil big business again ...

They take advantage of cheap labor, (if the severance is $1900 (a years' pay) , $5 a day must not be so awful bad in that economy)

But the tire plant happens to be in the middle of a war zone (so to speak) and I'd imagine the houses (that Firestone probably built) are beingt burned down

So Firestone regretfully ousts anyone left in the house, gives them daddy's pay for a year, a sack of rice and burns the house down

yeah ... so ?

OK ... for those that may be accusing me of "fleshing out" a story ... (I didn't click any links, btw) .. the article doesn't appear to do much more than slam big business.

[Old Sarge]

They’re just “doing the jobs Americans won’t do...”

[ConservativeInPA]

The average income in Liberia is $436. That would make $1,900 a boat load of money. Imagine an insurance policy 4 times your salary.

[HamiltonJay]

The sad reality, that most first worlder’s just don’t understand, is that in much of the world, human life is cheap.. period.

I don’t mean its cheap in a financial sense, I mean its just cheap, period.

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[ThunderSleeps]

At $5 a day, figure an average American work year of 50 weeks of 5 days. (I realize that may be very different there) That is still $1250 a year, well above the average, in fact 2.8 times the average. Average in America is $51,939. I wouldn't mind making $148,545 a year.

I didn't read the article but I would suspect they are forcing them out and possibly burning the house to reduce the chances of further infection. Get them out, away from the infected person's personal effects that may be contaminated. Burn the place to keep anyone from coming back and to destroy the virus.

[norwaypinesavage]

Firestone is NOT an American company. It was effectively bankrupted by the Ford Explorer tire failure problem, and was bought out buy the Japanese tire company Bridgestone in 1988.

[Ben Ficklin]

I guess it is just coincidental but PBS Frontline's show this past week was on Firestone/Liberia. It didn't cover any of the current events but was about events there 25 years ago when Charles Taylor took over the country. The show was co-produced by Pro Publica.

The main issue of the show was about whether or not the money Firestone paid Charles Taylor fueled the genocide. The show also gave a lot of details about how they treated their employees and the housing before and after they were finally allowed back into the country.

Firestone and the Warlord

[knarf]

My wife’s Filipina and I could ex-pat there and live like a king and queen on my SS alone ... which only pays bills here.

[knarf]

I mean WE could live like a king and queen ...

[Pecos]

Alternate title: "EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how American tyre giant Firestone forces families of dead Ebola victims to leave their homes contaminated homes on Liberian plantation"

[heartwood]

Many of those who receive the death benefit will spend it or have it taken from them quickly.

The logistical difficulties in administering a pension might make that a worse option.

A little paternalism wouldn’t come amiss here - hiring a surviving adult family member, or orphanages and schooling for orphaned children.

[huldah1776]

Here’s another:

Sick Air Force officer back from Africa being monitored at Fort Bliss

[probably food poisoning, and the best news, they are cutting down on number of clinics and some are going to have less beds. — pray for the officer and then the boots who are in quarantine. If they are young Marines, they are very bored.]

http://www.stripes.com/news/sick-air-force-officer-back-from-africa-being-monitored-at-fort-bliss-1.315023

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Smokin' Joe]

Considering the housing will likely be burned, but would be used for worker housing if successfully decontaminated anyway, the 4X average annual salary 'settlement', and even food for today and tomorrow, that isn't such a bad deal.

No corporation in the US is required to house and pay survivors in perpetuity unless there was negligence, and in the event you died of some non work-related disease, chances are you'd get nothing.

It may not seem like much money here, but under the conditions there, it might even be called generous.

[metmom]

Isn’t Firestone the one I read about recently who built an Ebola clinic for patients and was treating them successfully?

Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks

http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/354054915/firestone-did-what-governments-have-not-stopped-ebola-in-its-tracks

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It was inevitable that Firestone who set up an Ebola hospital in three days, without the US Army, would be excoriated in the obama pwned press.

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Abathar]

"Children who lived with Ebola-victim parents are thrown off plantation"

Okay... Pretty sure "thrown" is not what happened, how about "escorted to a facility equipped to handle orphans" like they would have done anywhere in the industrialized world. So what are they suppose to do with them? Why is it their responsibility to raise them? Are they just suppose to let children live in the homes forever now that their parents are dead?

WTH are these people expecting them to do in this situation?? And on another note mentioned - Do they have any idea of what would happen if they paid their employees a US minimum wage, and the PROBLEMS that would incur? Have they thought about what it is to make them all instant millionaires (relatively) who worked for them? Good grief some people haven't got a damn clue as to what the real world would do if they ever had a magic wand to waive and create the Utopia they think they could bring.