Sun Feb 16, 2014
Thousands of Spaniards have taken part in a protest against controversial plans by Coca Cola Company to close some of its bottling factories, resulting in the layoff of many workers in the southwestern European country.
Demonstrators, wearing red caps and vests with the logo of the giant US drinks company, took to the streets in the Spanish capital Madrid on Saturday while carrying banners calling for a boycott of Coca Cola.
General Secretary of the General Union of Workers (UGT) Candido Mendez and leader of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO) Fernandez Toxo headed the protest rally.
Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, the company’s Spanish subsidiary, announced in January that it would shutter four of its 11 plants in about three weeks in the northwestern Asturias region, the Balearic Islands, near Madrid and in Alicante.
The move is expected to affect some 1,250 jobs, with 750 employees being laid off and 500 others relocated.
The company, however, insists that the closures are needed to improve efficiency, but workers describe the layoffs as unjustified since the company is making profit.
Earlier this month, crowds estimated to be about 2,000 marched in Madrid and the eastern city of Alicante over Coca Cola job cuts.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/350963.html.
Thousands of Spaniards have taken part in a protest against controversial plans by Coca Cola Company to close some of its bottling factories, resulting in the layoff of many workers in the southwestern European country.
Demonstrators, wearing red caps and vests with the logo of the giant US drinks company, took to the streets in the Spanish capital Madrid on Saturday while carrying banners calling for a boycott of Coca Cola.
General Secretary of the General Union of Workers (UGT) Candido Mendez and leader of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO) Fernandez Toxo headed the protest rally.
Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, the company’s Spanish subsidiary, announced in January that it would shutter four of its 11 plants in about three weeks in the northwestern Asturias region, the Balearic Islands, near Madrid and in Alicante.
The move is expected to affect some 1,250 jobs, with 750 employees being laid off and 500 others relocated.
The company, however, insists that the closures are needed to improve efficiency, but workers describe the layoffs as unjustified since the company is making profit.
Earlier this month, crowds estimated to be about 2,000 marched in Madrid and the eastern city of Alicante over Coca Cola job cuts.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/350963.html.
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