The National Union of Food Industry Workers ( es, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos, SINALTRAINAL) is a Colombian
food industry trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...
.
The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of
Panamco, a Colombian
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. Originally marketed as a temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlant ...
bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by
right-wing paramilitary groups such as the
AUC in order to prevent unionisation. They are a central focus of the ongoing
Coca-Cola boycott movementbr>
prevalent across college
campuses worldwide (see
criticism of Coca-Cola).
See also
*
Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola
Notes
*
Amnesty International (AI) report 27 August 2003 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL vice-president Juan Carlos Galvis
*
AI report 23 September 2005 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL member José Onofre Esquivel Luna
External links
* http://www.sinaltrainal.org/
Trade unions in Colombia
Food processing trade unions
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