Coca Cola labour troubles continue in Venezuela

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Caracas, Venezuela, 17 June 2008. Many local shops in Venezuela no longer offer Coca Cola soft drinks. It has run out of their stocks and remain on order. This is cause by an ongoing labour conflict among the famous multinational company and eleven thousand workers. Since 2006, protesters maintained Coca Cola Femsa has owned them money for a long time as their labour benefits were not paid when due or after having been made reluctant. On the other had, Coca Cola Femsa has argued that ex workers and protestors have no legal labour rights to demand at all. They were not in their pay roll but under contract of its subsidiaries of distributors. 

 On various occasions this year alone, Coca Cola employees and ex workers have paralysed its factories or distributions outlets. Local tribunals and the Supreme Tribunal have orders protesters to allow Coca Cola Femsa to function and restate their demands but the conflict remains. It comes back and forth to the same unresolved situation. Last week the Venezuelan labour Minister, Roberto Hernandez, offered his mediation to resolve the conflict. However, such offer has fallen on deaf ears.  Coca Cola Femsa has spent time and resources to promote its legal cause. Coca Cola under its current administration only started working in Venezuela in 2003.

Sources: YVKE, Infobae, VTV, RNV, Telesur, El Universal,