European Trade Unions condemn Coca-Cola's accumulated human rights abuses
21-03-2019
19 IUF affiliates from 11 countries met for the IUF European region EFFAT's Coca-Cola Coordination Group meeting in Berlin on March 18 and 19 to develop union action to protect their members' futures in the Coca-Cola system.
FCCU stands with IUF's Zero Rights campaign
05-03-2019
On February 21-22, 2019, The Federation of Coca-Cola Unions in the Philippines organized its national conference. The conference attended by leaders of all FCCU local unions saluted the ongoing fights of Coca-Cola workers in Indonesia, Ireland, Haiti and the US and extended its solidarity and support to Coca-Cola workers and their unions in these countries.
Pakistan Coca-Cola Beverages Workers Union show solidarity with Zero Rights campaign
08-02-2019
On February 5 2019, Coca-Cola Beverages Workers Union (CCBWU) in Pakistan held its second General Council Meeting. Delegates to the meeting expressed their continued outrage at the ongoing human rights abuses within the Coca-Cola system in Indonesia, Ireland, Haiti, the Philippines and the USA. The union unanimously adopted a resolution extending their solidarity and support to Coca-Cola workers in these countries.
Successful negotiations bring wage increase for sales workers at Coca-Cola Israel
08-02-2019
Coca-Cola sales workers in Israel represented by the IUF-affiliated Histadrut signed their newest collective bargaining agreement(CBA) on December 25, 2018. The agreement that applies to 600 workers will be valid for the next 3 years.
Workers at Coca-Cola Indonesia again confirm their confidence in victimized union leaders
07-02-2019
Workers at Coca-Cola Indonesia fighting for independent and democratic unions have again confirmed their confidence in union leaders victimized by management. At a general membership meeting on February 5, Lutfi Arifiyanto was re-elected chairman of the independent SBMCC, the union of workers at Coca-Cola Indonesia in Bawen, Java.
Three days after the union elected him chairman at its founding assembly in February 2017, Lutfi was informed of his transfer to a distribution facility some 170 kilometers from the Bawen plant. He refused the transfer because it violated his members' fundamental right to freely elect their union leadership. As a result of his refusal to have these internationally recognized rights stripped away he was formally terminated on November 21, 2017.
Sweden - LIVS highlights IUF's Zero Rights campaign in its widely circulated news magazine
28-01-2019
IUF-affiliated LIVS in Sweden has circulated information about Coca-Cola's human rights violations in several countries and promoted the IUF's Zero Rights campaign via its online and printed news magazine.
