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...campus group called the Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) first brought a complaint on Nov. 30, 2004, alleging that Coca-Cola had violated the university’s “Vendor Code of Conduct,” according to a statement posted on the Michigan website...
...student coalition accused the soft drink company of polluting groundwater in India with pesticides and promoting unsafe working conditions and interfering with labor unions in Colombia, the statement said. Coca-Cola has repeatedly denied the allegations...
...complaints were forwarded to the university’s Dispute Review Board (DRB), which investigates possible breaches of the code of conduct. In June 2005, the DRB determined that Coca-Cola may have violated the code’s standards with regard to pesticides in India and labor issues in Colombia, according to the statement...
...established a series of deadlines for Coca-Cola to accept an independent, third-party audit of the conditions in Colombia, according to the university’s statement...
...soft drink giant agreed to the assessment in principle, but in a letter dated Dec. 16, 2005, Coca-Cola said that a legal impasse regarding a pending lawsuit against its Colombian bottling partners would prevent the company from selecting an auditor by the board’s Dec. 31 deadline...