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Only three and a half months after suspending its business relations with the Coca-Cola Company over allegations of human rights abuses, the University of Michigan did an about-face yesterday, announcing that it will reinstate Coke products across its campus effective immediately...
...letter written to Donald R. Knauss, president of Coca-Cola North America, the university’s Executive Vice President and CFO Timothy P. Slottow cited Coke’s cooperation with independent investigations by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO) as vital to Michigan’s decision...
...University is satisfied that the independent review processes you have outlined meet our prerequisite to resume purchasing Coca-Cola products,” Slottow wrote to Knauss, referring to the ILO investigation...
Just as a student campaign to urge Harvard to cut its contract with Coke is fizzing up, a magazine whose primary sponsor is the Coca-Cola Company was door-dropped across campus on Friday with a spread on campus campaigns against Coke, as well as a full page rebuttal from the company to allegations of human rights abuses.Writing in the Princeton University-based “Business Today”—which says it reaches 150,000 readers nationwide—Coke’s Director of Global Labor Relations and Workplace Accountability Edward E. Potter said that...
Wielding signs supporting Harvard workers, shaking Pepsi and Dr. Pepper can noisemakers, and pounding makeshift drums, nearly 40 demonstrators marched in a circle outside the Holyoke Center yesterday, demanding that Harvard discontinue its Coca-Cola contract and provide better working conditions for Harvard’s employees. Chanting slogans like “What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Harvard’s wages!,” protestors moved from the Holyoke Center to the Harvard University Dining Services headquarters to University Hall, where the administration was filtering in to a 4 p.m. Faculty...