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Public report on the union disaffiliation campaign in Coca Cola Carepa  (Bottler Badur)

 

 



NATIONAL UNION OF BEER, MALT, JUICE, SOFT DRINK,
WATER AND SODA WORKERS OF COLOMBIA


   

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Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia


Unión Internacional de Trabajadores de la Alimentación, Agrícolas, Hoteles, Restaurantes, Tabaco y Afines

The National Board of SICO, hereby informs the Colombian Union Movement, particularly the United Workers Federation of Colombia (CUT) and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers Unions (IUF) -of which SICO is a member- that the company Bebidas y Alimentos de Urabá - Badur (Coca Cola Carepa) has initiated a surreptitious union disaffiliation campaign. 

After signing the new Collective Bargaining Agreement on 16 February, Management, through its officers Martha Elena Carmona, Production Manager, and Raúl Antonio Cogollo, Maintenance Management, has been offering promotions and applying a discrimination policy in overtime schedules for Sundays and holidays with privileges for non union workers.

Clearly, this campaign is aimed at destroying the Union and thus eliminating the Collective Agreement, which provisions ensure job security and basic rights of workers without any discrimination whatsoever.

Despite the Collective Agreement between Badur and SICO was negotiated through a dialogue process without conflict, it is clear that the Badur's background in terms of confrontation and union busting were investigated by the National State Attorney's Office as a result accusations of another union five years before SICO re-organized the union and resumed collective bargaining.

During such negative period of union absence and accusations for the killing of unionists, workers did not obtain salary increases and were usually subject to management arbitrary actions.

In consideration of the above, in the name of all local union boards we state our unconditional support to the SICO-Carepa local union and call on the National Executive Committee of CUT, the Antioquia Regional Board of CUT and the IUF Latin American Regional Secretariat to immediately join us in order to prevent the destruction of the local union of SICO-Carepa and its Collective Agreement.

We must remind that such Collective Agreement was considered emblematic by a recent ILO mission because of the rights obtained in terms of  union freedom, freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Finally, we call on all SICO members in Carepa to be united and avoid being influenced or deceived by management. According to our experience, in the event Badur - Coca Cola manages to destroy the union and the collective agreement, outsourcing and dismissals will pervade, and  union, economic, and social rights will be absolutely lost.

National Board,
 

JULIO RUBEN PADILLA A.
President

ROBERTO MARTINEZ VARGAS
General Secretary

 

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