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Proving that nothing is completely free—not even waiting-room Cheez-Its and Diet Coke??some of the IOP’s VIP’s find that the perks of speaking there come with a price tag of sorts. White and others have countless stories about protesters shouting at speakers only to be quickly escorted out by HUPD. Heather A. Woodruff ’03 turned the tables on Warren Beatty after he had waxed eloquent about the injustices of corporate executives making too much money, White says, accosting him with questions about the salaries...
...Coke??s policies are woefully inadequate for a corporation that claims to offer comprehensive treatment for its workers. Initially Coke only provided treatment for 1,200 of its 100,000 employees—less than two percent of its workforce. Only after intense pressure from activist groups did Coke announce on Sept. 29 that it would extend coverage to the eight largest of Coke??s forty bottlers in Africa. However, even this move forward came with small print undermining its significance. Hidden underneath all the positive publicity Coke hoped to gain from this announcement...
Even worse is Coke??s scheme to keep the few workers it does cover from taking part in the treatment plan. Coke requires workers to make a 10 percent co-payment. Previous estimates put the cheapest annual treatment for one HIV positive patient at a cost of $2,500. For a Coke employee, many of whom make well under $3,000 a year, the cost is an impossible burden. Even the 10 percent co-payment is simply too expensive for Coke??s bottling employees to afford and will preclude treatment from actually reaching its workers. Coke...
...campus dining halls and vending machines, not to mention the fact that a member of the Board of Overseers is also an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Coca-Cola. HAC has called on Harvard to use this influence, particularly its shares and contracts, to effect change in Coke??s health coverage policies. If Coke doesn’t change, the protesters have asked the school to divest from Coke and terminate its contracts with the soft drink company...
...Coke??s shamefully slow pace contradicts the company’s rhetoric of compassion and action and makes us deeply skeptical about the rollout of the announced treatment program,” Alexander said...