Death threats, abduction, extortion and dismissals at Coca-Cola

[Judi Lynn]

Death threats, abduction, extortion and dismissals at Coca-Cola

Workers at a Coca-Cola plant in Pakistan face violence, corruption, sleaze and increasingly criminal approaches by the plant management trying to undermine and disband the union. The management uses new tactics making jobs precarious by creating a bogus employer

PAKISTAN: As reported by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations, IUF, (http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/415) after formation of their union at Coca-Cola's bottling plant in the southern Pakistan city of Multan in June 2009, members have met with death threats, abduction, firings, extortion, forgery and fraud. The Multan plant is part of Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited. (CCBPL), jointly owned by Turkish bottler Coca-Cola Icecek (CCI) and The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) based in Atlanta.

Already at the stage when the union prepared for its founding congress on June 19, 2009, management began a campaign of blackmail and extortion targeting 36 active union supporters.

Later, after the union attempted to get official registration union officers received "night visits" to their private homes on June 27 and 28. Eight Coca-Cola Multan managers tried to force union officers to quit the union or sign a letter withdrawing the union's application for registration. Due to the management pressure on the authorities the union application of registration is still awaiting approval.

More:
http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=23416&l=2

[soleft]

1. I've recently been reading about all the anti union violence in Latin America

I thought that's what this was going to be about when I opened this. Wow -

[Judi Lynn]

2. Same here, soleft. It gives the former even more credibility with this new info.! n/t

[cascadiance]

5. Check out the recent FSTV aired documentary "The Coca Cola Case"...

It's about Coca Cola's involvement in murders of unionists in their plants in South America.

I'm not sure if you can get a DVD of it just yet, though they were giving them away as gifts in FSTV's recent fund raising drive...

http://www.nfb.ca/film/coca_cola_case_trailer/

[midnight]

3. I read recently that Bill Gates has ties with Coca-Cola. The

surge in Afghanistan was said to cause instability in Pakistan. It seems to me that our lack of over site to stability is fueled by a greed that needs to put back into balance. Bill Gates could do some good if he pulled his investment in Coca Cola until workers rights were restored via their unions. I love Fresca, but will no longer purchase this product due to those being denied union rights via night visits.


AMERICA'S SOFTWARE KING apparently has a taste for Latin American soft drinks. Microsoft (ticker: MSFT) founder Bill Gates raised his stake in Latin American soft-drink bottler Coca-Cola Femsa (KOF) last week, buying nearly $18 million worth of American depositary receipts (ADRs) in the company.

Gates purchased 292,069 ADRs of Coca-Cola Femsa on Jan. 11, 12 and 13 through his investment vehicle Cascade Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for $17.7 million, or about ...http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126394553501831657.html

[Jefferson23]

4. K&R