IUF Coca-Cola news move to new interactive website
In line with the Global Coca-Cola Workers meeting in Oberjosbach, Germany, and the decision to set up the Global Coca-Cola Workers Alliance, the IUF has set up a new, interactive website for communication between Coca-Cola Union activists at http://www.iuf.org/ccww. Check out the possibilities of the website - read news about labour related issues at Coke around the world, register as a user and post your own news, participate in forum discussions and online polls etc: http://www.iuf.org/ccww.
Coca-Cola Co. offers to buy China Huiyuan Juice Group. in some US$2.5B deal
The Coca-Cola Co., the world's biggest beverage company, moved to expand its operations
in the fast-growing Chinese market Wednesday with a US$2.5 billion bid for major juicemaker China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd.
Coke to expand distribution centers in Africa
efforts to secure hard-to-reach markets as well as create more job opportunities, Coca-Cola Co. has planned to expand locally run distribution centers in Africa by up to 2,000 within three years.
Food price storm will continue - Coke boss
High commodity and food prices were unlikely to calm down any time soon, Muhtar Kent, the president of Coca-Cola, said yesterday
Continue reading "Food price storm will continue - Coke boss "Outsourced workers fight for regularization, join ACCUP-IUF
Today 40 workers who’ve worked for Coca-Cola Philippines for up to 15 years through a fake third-party contractor have escalated their fight for direct, regular employment by joining a union in the IUF-affiliated Alliance of Coca-Cola Unions Philippines (ACCUP).
Continue reading "Outsourced workers fight for regularization, join ACCUP-IUF"Coca-Cola to invest US$50m in Kenya
9 May 2008 | Source: just-drinks.com editorial team
The Coca-Cola Company has announced it is to invest US$50m in the expansion and up-scaling of its bottling lines across Kenya.
Continue reading "Coca-Cola to invest US$50m in Kenya"CHINA: Authorities “blacklist” Nestlé, P&G, Coca-Cola products
12 May 2008 | Source: just-food.com
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) has reportedly blacklisted products from companies including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Nestlé over safety concerns.
Continue reading "CHINA: Authorities “blacklist” Nestlé, P&G, Coca-Cola products"Coca-Cola Enterprise workers on strike in Northern France around pay negotiations
The French unions FO, CFDT and CFTC jointly launched industrial action on 17 April at the Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) production site of Bierne-Socx. Strikers demand a 6% raise on top of additional 80 €
per month to compensate athe remuneration gap between the company operations in the province and the ones in Paris.
Management tries to stop 1,800 new sales force workers joining unions, wages a "disinformation" campaign via SMS
In the face of a systematic “disinformation” campaign by management designed to trick 1,800 newly hired sales force workers into thinking they are not eligible for union membership, the IUF-affiliated ACCUP launched a counter-campaign and has started recruiting new members.
Continue reading "Management tries to stop 1,800 new sales force workers joining unions, wages a "disinformation" campaign via SMS"Philippines: Supreme Court decision boosts legal cases against CCBPI's illegal dismissal of more than 900 union members
Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc (CCBPI) had denied the right to regular employment to seven workers and their subsequent dismissal was deemed illegal. This has set a crucial precedent for 14 separate legal cases filed by unions affiliated to the IUF. Together these cases cover the illegal dismissal of more than 900 union members.
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