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Coke hunger strike ends - talks begin

Coombia Solidarity Campaign | 28.03.2004 12:34

After 276 hours on hunger strike, national talks have been initiated with the corporation in an attempt to reach agreement that will allow the relocation of the workers displaced by its closure of 11 bottling plants.

TALKS START WITH COCA COLA
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>In a meeting carried out with the company's President in Colombia, Señor JUAN CARLOS JARAMILLO, the following agreements were reached:
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> 1.. On 2nd April there will be a further meeting between the company and the trade union at which SINALTRAINAL will present a proposal for reordering the production process. Delegates from all the plants in conflict will attend the meeting, and the corporation will provide the necessary resources and permits.
> 2.. The company will not take reprisals against the participants in the hunger strike protest and it will revoke the sanctions already imposed.
> 3.. The company will grant two weeks paid leave to the hunger strikers so that they can recover physically, and it will pay for the medical treatment that they require to achieve their full recuperation.
> 4.. The company will pay for the publication of a notice in a national daily newspaper in which it will demand that the protesters' claims and the lives of its workers be respected.*
>We give immense thanks for the help and solidarity shown to us from all the corners of the world, without which it would not have been possible to gain this agreement. There had to be twelve days of hunger strike - to the point that its participants were feeling the effects physically and mentally - before the company finally accepted the need for talks, to listen to its workers, to give them the chance to speak. Twelve days of sacrifice and threats from the paramilitaries so that the workers could be heard. It is only the unity, the solidarity and the strength of our just cause that got the company to commit itself to discussing with the union alternatives to the labour execution of the workers.
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>This has been a very important triumph for struggle and solidarity in defence of human rights at the national and international level. But the causes that generated the protest have still not been resolved, it is just that a process of dialogue has been initiated that could lead to resolving them.
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>Today more than ever we must be united and strong and all those who with dignity, fortitude and love for our cause have accompanied us, must continue doing so in order to guarantee a just and prompt solution for the workers.
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>SINALTRAINAL maintains its wish for dialogue in the search for solutions that will safeguard jobs and labour stability for our comrades. As a sign of the political maturity that we have been characterised with, we have decided unilaterally to end the hunger strike from 6.00 a.m. 27th March 2004 in an endeavour to reach a rapid solution to the conflict. We will keep our members and the organisations participating in the world-wide campaign against Coca Cola informed of the outcome of the talks.
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>SOLIDARITY IS AFFECTION BETWEEN PEOPLES.
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>THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US THIS TENDERNESS.
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>WE WILL CONTINUE BUILDING RESISTANCE AND ADVANCING TOWARDS NEW DAWNS.
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>A HUGE EMBRACE TO ALL.
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>NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SINALTRAINAL
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>27th March 2004
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>[* Note from Colombia Solidarity Campaign: this is to signal that the paramilitaries should not take reprisal action].
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>The Colombia Solidarity Campaign held a vigil outside the headquarters of Coca Cola Great Britain and Ireland from 4.30pm on Friday 26th March and together with students from Sussex University a street meeting in Hammersmith on Saturday 27th March. We too would like to thank all those who have taken any action over the last two weeks in support of the hunger strikers, and will advise of further developments.

Coombia Solidarity Campaign

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