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Benjamin Weintraub’s February 17th article (“SLAM Takes Aim at Coke Contract,” news) noted that Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is planning to target Coca-Cola in an effort to secure for Coca-Cola workers the right to organize...
...director of global labor relations at Coca-Cola, I share the concerns of student activists regarding labor conditions around the world. Through my work on the United Nations International Labor Organization, I have seen firsthand the manifold difference it makes in the lives of individuals, families, communities and entire countries when employers live up to the responsibilities due their workers. In my experience, the campaigns that are the most successful are those grounded in irrefutable fact and driven by a commitment to justice. In the case of the campaign against The Coca-Cola Company, the facts tell quite a different...
...Coca-Cola Company is committed to promoting fair labor practices everywhere we do business. In Colombia and around the world, we respect workers’ rights to unionize and we do not tolerate intimidation of union members. We engage regularly with internationally respected organizations to review our labor standards and to work with us in assessing compliance with these standards in our operations worldwide...
Being a citizen, you have a remedy apart from exile. In the real world, private property rights are trumped by Constitutional rights; if you’re a labor organizer trying to picket, you often have access to private property like stores in a mall because you’re engaged in a Constitutionally-protected form of speech...
There are two addictionshere: That of the Mexicans to the U.S. dollar and that of the Americans to cheap labor. In addition, it plainly doesn't matter how long we Mexicans have lived in the U.S. We struggle and maneuver between two languages and two cultures and settle somewhere in the middle, neither here nor there. Everyone pays a price: for the Mexican, it is being away from family and home, probably never to return permanently, and for the American, it is having to provide health care and other services for this secret workforce...