In April the Union of Students national congress in Ireland passed a motion to support SIPTU and the IUF's #TasteZeroRights campaign in protest particularly of Coca-Cola's denial of workers' rights to unionise and engage in collective bargaining  in the west of Ireland. USI represents 347,000 students across the island of Ireland.

FSBMM and FSPM joined the May Day rally in Lampung and Jakarta and organized a substantial show of solidarity with Coca-Cola workers in their ongoing fight for the right to form and join independent unions. Marchers also demanded that unfairly dismissed leaders at Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia be reinstated by the Company.

Led by the IUF's European organization EFFAT, unions representing Coca-Cola workers organized a demonstration on Monday 29 April at the Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) headquarters in Anderlecht.

FSBMM members have continued a series of protest actions in Indonesia in support of the independent Coca-Cola unions at Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA).

IUF affiliates representing Coca-Cola workers from 18 countries, including countries that represent some of Coca-Cola's major markets joined a meeting of the Alliance in Geneva on April 8 and 9. Amongst a number of issues raised at the two-day meeting were longstanding rights abuses in a number of countries.

In ongoing negotiations for a new collective agreement the company has offered minimal wage increases to the German food workers union (NGG) but only on condition that the union accepts a significant increase in "flexibility" with all the negative consequences for additional workloads and future employment that may lead to. The union position remains a straightforward demand for a 180.00 Euro a month increase.