Word: coking
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Divestment has been a big issue on campus this semester—but last Thursday, students weren’t calling on Harvard to divest from Israel. This time, their target was Coke...
...Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) led the protest outside Massachusetts Hall, part of its ongoing campaign to pressure Coca-Cola to provide health coverage for 100,000 people in Africa who work for wholly or partially owned subsidiaries of Coke. The University has an extensive relationship with Coca-Cola: It has sizable holdings in the company and contracts for 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...
...correct that Coke should change its policies. For a company like Coca-Cola to refuse to provide health coverage to its subsidiaries’ workers is unacceptable—the cost to the company would be bearable, while the lack of coverage costs many workers their lives. Coke already provides HIV treatment to its direct employees here and in Africa, but workers for subsidiaries—mostly bottling factories—do not have access to confidential HIV testing or treatment. Coca-Cola should change its policies to meet these demands, pushing employment standards in Africa up towards levels...
...protesters say that a demand from an institution as prestigious as Harvard would force Coke to change. They also noted Harvard could use its vending machine contracts as leverage...
...information from Health GAP, the group that organized the Global Day of Action, said that the foundation’s new program is too slow-moving. They claim Coke has enrolled only eight of its 40 African subsidiary companies in the program...