The RWDSU, one of the IUF's affiliates in the United States representing Coca-Cola workers, reports ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement after difficult but successful bargaining for over 500 Coca-Cola workers in New England.

These are some pictures from the protest march of ABI workers in Johannesburg, South Africa, January 11, 2009. 

As part of intensifying the strike action at ABI Coke, COSATU General Secretary, Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi addressed a protest rally, following a march to SAB Ltd offices in Sandton, by striking workers of ABI Coke and workers of SAB beer and other Coca Cola bottling companies at 14h00 on 11th January 2010.

More than 100 protesting FAWU members have been arrested in Midland and Develand January 5 and 6. The workers have been on strike since December 22 for better wages, better working schedules, and against the increasing use of outsourcing and labour brokers at ABI, the Soft Drink division of SAB Ltd in South Africa

Members of the Food and Allied Workers’ Union [FAWU], the IUF affiliate in South Africa organising Coca-Cola workers, are on strike since December 22 at ABI Coke, the soft drinks division of South African Breweries (SAB).

Workers in a Coca-Cola distribution center in Gdynia, Poland, formed a union local at the end of Novembera It became part of IUF affiliate NSZZ Solidarnosc, the most recent member of the the Global Coca-Cola Workers Alliance.

The Coca-Cola Workers Alliance is our tool to organise, fight union rights violations and casualisation at Coca-Cola operations worldwide.

This leaflet explains the idea of the Alliance to comrades at work and other union activists and proposes how we can build the Alliance together. 

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