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DESCRIPTION:Protest to Support Hunger Striking Workers!   Defend Trade Unions in 
 Colombia!   Tuesday March 23rd 11:00am – 2:00pm   Coca-Cola Corporate 
 Headquarters   7901 Oakport, Oakland, CA   (just off Hegenburger and 880, 
 near Coliseum BART,   Berkeley Students Meet at Bancroft and Telegraph 
 10:30am to carpool.)   “If we lose the fight against Coca-Cola, we will 
 first lose our union, next our jobs and then our lives.” Juan Carlos 
 Galvis, VP of local union in Colombia.   On February 25th, the Colombian 
 Ministry of Labor authorized Coca-Cola to dismiss 91 workers – 70% of 
 whom are union leaders. This is Coca-Cola’s effort to essentially 
 eliminate the union. On March 15th, workers at 7 bottling plants began a 
 hunger strike.   Hunger Striking Workers are demanding that instead of 
 being fired, those workers be relocated to other bottling plants in 
 accordance to Articles 18 and 91 of their current collective bargaining 
 agreement.   Since 1990 eight Coke workers have been killed and 67 have 
 received death threats from paramilitaries. Management has used this to 
 intimidate workers out of being part of the union.   for more info contact 
 Students Organizing for Justice in the Americas at sojistas@yahoo.com   for 
 background info check out the Indybay Labor page for links and other 
 articles http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/22/33883.php
SUMMARY:Protest to Support Hunger Striking Workers in Colombia
LOCATION:Coca-Cola Regional Corporate Headquarters   7901 Oakport, Oakland, CA   
 (just off Hegenburger and 880, near Coliseum BART, Berkeley Students Meet 
 at Bancroft and Telegraph 10:30am to carpool.) 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/22/33883.php
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