SINALTRAINAL

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The National Union of Food Industry Workers (Spanish: Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos, SINALTRAINAL) is a Colombian food industry trade union.

The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Panamco, a Colombian Coca-Cola bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by paramilitary groups such as the AUC,[1].[2] They are a central focus of the ongoing Coke-boycott movement [3] across college campuses.

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  • ^  [4] Amnesty International (AI) report 27 August 2003 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL vice-president Juan Carlos Galvis
  • ^  [5] AI report 23 September 2005 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL member José Onofre Esquivel Luna

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Organized Labour Portal

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