Trade union slams Coca-Cola company for violating worker rights

GMB – one of Britain’s largest trade unions – has slammed the Coca-Cola company for “corporate greed” and “complete lack of respect for the human rights of workers at its factories and bottling plants all around the world.”

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The Coca-Cola Company have received warnings from the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) regarding several rights violations in Haiti, Indonesia and the Philippines. 

These include: failure to recognise workplace unions in Haiti to resolve issues around poor working conditions, preventing an Indonesian branch from retaining the Collective Bargaining Agreements and trying to stop Coca-Cola FEMSA in the Philippines from presenting a package of job destruction, labour law violations and systematic rights abuses as its new ‘business model’.

GMB London added that the company is also violating rights of workers in the UK.  In the UK, the Coca-Cola Company announced the closure of plants in Milton Keynes and Northampton, affecting around 300 jobs. The decision to close the factory and warehouse was to save around £12 million a year.