Asia/Pacific

At the Coca-Cola Bacolod plant management escalated its attack on trade union rights by laying down new restrictions on how paid trade union leave is used. 

The Bacolod Sales Force Employees Union filed a notice of strike before the National Conciliation and Mediation Board in Bacolod City when no settlement was reached on their collective bargaining agreement with Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Cyrus Javelosa, its president, said on Friday June 15.

Alliance of Coca-Cola Unions Philippines (ACCUP) keeps on its series of revolving protest actions against the "Lies of Coke".  ACCUP members fighting for decent work, right & respect at Coca-Cola Philippines organised a picket protest and rally in Makati city in front of Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI) main office on June 1.

On 25 April ACCUP will launch the first of a series of revolving protest actions that will continue until 31 October. ACCUP is protesting jobs destruction under forced mass redundancies of sales workers, increased contractualization and outsourcing to replace regular jobs in manufacturing, the loss of wage bargaining rights and an unfair regime of performance appraisal and punishment that undermines job security.

Coca-Cola Beverage Korea Labour Unions (CCBKLU) held their ordinary conventions respectively on February 2012 and endorsed their 2012 work plans and budgets. Unions demanded for equal sharing of good profit results and improvement of occupational health and safety at Coca-Cola Korea operations. However, the Company didn't respond the demands of the unions. Instead, through its congratulatory address, it stressed that Coca-Cola Beverage Korea (CCBK) has been growing up over the past 4 years in terms of sales and operating profit but it was not a first class beverage company and therefore all employees must overcome much more hardships in facing challenges of world economy's uncertainties and unforeseen consumers' trend.