Soft Drink, Hard Labour: Guatemalan Workers Take on Coca-Cola

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For nine years the 450 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City fought a battle with their employers for their jobs, trade union and lives. Three times they occupied the plant–at the last occasion for thirteen months. Three General Secretaries in their union were murdered and five other workers killed. Four more were kidnapped and have disappeared. Against all odds they survived, thanks to their very own odd courage and lend a hand from fellow trade unionists in Guatemala and world wide. An enormous international campaign of protests and boycotts were central to their struggle. In consequence, the Coca-Cola workers forced concessions from one of the crucial world’s largest multinational food giants, and kept the Guatemalan trade union movement alive through the dark age of government repression.

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