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Organization Project
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| Project visible to | everybody |
| Name | Killer Coke Campaign |
| Organization | United Students Against Sweatshops |
| Start date | Friday, July 11, 2025 |
| End date | Tuesday, August 1, 2025 |
| Project overview | United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is targeting Coca-Cola for worker and human rights violations in Colombia, India, Turkey, Guatemala, and Indonesia. While Coca-Cola has committed acts of intimidation and union busting across the globe, the situation in Colombia is the most egregious as eight union leaders from Coca-Cola plants have been murdered by paramilitary forces since 1989. There is substantial evidence that managers of several bottling plants have ordered assaults to occur and made regular payments to leaders of the paramilitary groups carrying out the attacks.
The Colombian workers’ union, SINALTRAINAL, has appealed for solidarity and allies in the U.S. labor and social justice movements have answered their call. The United Steelworkers and the International Labor Rights Fund have filed a lawsuit against Coca-Cola on behalf of the union and victims' families in U.S. federal court. The International Labor Rights Fund is also suing Coke for human rights violations in Turkey. USAS chapters across the U.S. and Canada are working to get Coke kicked off of their campuses until the company cleans up its act. |
| Issue areas | economic security, livelihood issues and labor
agriculture and food security
corporate power/accountability
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