| Manifesto on the campaign against the Coca-Cola Company SINALTRAINAL |
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| viernes, 06 de febrero de 2009 | |
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October 2008 As SINALTRAINAL has maintained since the beginning of its human rights campaign against the Coca-Cola Company, we demand that the company resolve the ongoing violence and meetthe victims’ demands. However, this has yet to be achieved. On the contrary, the Coca-ColaCompany has adopted a strategy of lies to mislead public opinion and the workforce, dissolveour popular support, and terminate our campaign. The Coca-Cola Company wants to avoid pressure that would force them to engage with SINALTRAINAL and move forward on a process for truth, justice, and comprehensive reparations for the ictims and their families. We, SINALTRAINAL, continue to denounce the abuses of the Coca-Cola Company and the complicit Colombian state. We will continue our fight until Coca-Cola meets the following demands: 1. SINALTRAINAL will never be silenced and will always be free to speak truthfully about the buses of the Coca-Cola Company. 2. SINALTRAINAL is autonomous in its projects and the management of its social funds. 3. The Coca-Cola Company must guarantee that it will accept the responsibility of new problems and must promise SINALTRAINAL that these will be resolved by Coca-Cola rather than treated as mere local issues with the Coca-Cola bottlers. 4. The Coca-Cola Company must publicly acknowledge the benefits it has received from what as happened and its commitment that such violence will not reoccur. 5. An agreement necessitates the inclusion of reparations for the union; indemnification of the ictims; labor policy that adheres with human rights, collective bargaining agreements, and nternational treaties; the right to the preservation of historical memory, truth, justice, and eparation that will allow for the advancement of SINALTRAINAL’s social processes. 6. The Coca-Cola Company must adopt an agreement to modify its practice, recently welldocumented y the ILO, of decimating unions by using subcontractors. 7. SINALTRAINAL preserves its union sovereignty and its right to solidarity with the causes of thers workers and sectors in Colombia and the world. 8. SINALTRAINAL communicates its willingness to reach an agreement with the Coca-Cola ompany that is not harmful to workers and the union. 9. The Coca-Cola Company has forced SINALTRAINAL to inform the world about its abuses – s these abuses are not resolved and the company’s anti-union conduct persists, INALTRAINAL must continue to seek support to pressure the Coca-Cola Company to adopt a lobal policy respectful of Human Rights.
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