Oakland Action at Coke Regional Headquarters on March 23

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 [at] yahoo.com

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