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Monday, 3 February 2014

Coca-Cola workers protest layoffs in Spain

Coca-Cola workers protest layoffs in Spain

Thousands of workers from Coca-Cola bottling factories in Spain marched Sunday in protest at plant closures they say will cost 750 jobs.
In red caps and vests bearing the logo of the giant US drinks company,  crowds marched in Madrid and the eastern city of Alicante, where two of the  threatened plants are located.  
Coca-Cola’s plan to close four of its bottling factories in Spain is  expected to lead to 750 workers being laid off and 500 others being offered  relocation to other plants.  
The company said last month that the closures were needed to improve  efficiency. Workers say the layoffs are unjustified since the company is making  a profit.
Workers at the plant in the southern Madrid suburb of Fuenlabrada, one of  the capital’s poorest districts, have been on strike since Friday in protest.  
About 2,000 protesters marched to central Madrid from Fuenlabrada in  Sunday’s five-hour protest.  
They waved signs reading: “Boycott, they are destroying jobs” and “No to  the layoffs”.  
“The plants are profitable but they are throwing us into the street,” said  Francisco, 51, who fills bottles at the Fuenlabrada plant where he has worked  for 17 years.
He asked not to be identified by his surname.  
“It is a modern plant but they are shutting it just so they can make more  profits,” he added.
“The ’happiness’ of Coca-Cola is a sham.”


Read more: New Straits Times 
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