Talk:Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola

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[edit] context template

I just added an intro, making the context template (hopefully) unnecessary. I just started this article less than an hour ago, it is still a work in progress. Please comment on the additions and clarifications. Travb 03:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The article is still totally in a vacuum. I know that SINALTRAINAL is a labor union, but the average reader doesn't. (And I only know it because I Googled it.) I don't know where Maimi is; I suspect you mean Miami, Florida, but that seems weird, because Florida isn't part of Colombia. What paramilitaries are you talking about? Why is killercoke.org relevant to this article — its current mention looks like an advertisement, and makes me suspect non-NPOV. Links to other articles on Coca-Cola, labor unions, and South American anti-labor activism in particular would be valuable. That's why the {{context}} tag is there.
And of course the article is full of spelling and grammatical mistakes, and has a lot of ellipses that I assume means you're still working on those parts. That's the reason for the {{cleanup}} tag. --Quuxplusone 03:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I have never been accused of being a good speller. Thanks for all of the ideas, I will work on them tonight.Travb 04:03, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I know very little about the case but "Maimi" probably was, indeed, just a typo of Miami, Florida, since that is where U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez presides. He was the one who ruled in 2003 on the unions' case against Coca-Cola and Panamco, Coke's primary Latin American bottler. (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2909141.stm) NathanDahlin 00:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Material that needs to be rewritten

To abide by copyright rules, the following needs to be rewritten:

[edit] Threats

In 1996 Ariosto became the new plant manager of Bebidas y Alimentos, a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia. According to the plaintiff's complaint, Ariosto Mosquera publicly announced that he had given an order to the paramilitaries to carry out the task of destroying the Coca-Cola bottling union. Mosquera, in the presence of paramilitary forces...told a member of the local Sinaltrainal executive board that he would "sweep away the union".[1]

[edit] Murder

On December 5, 1996, at 9:00 in the morning, two paramilitaries approached Isidro Gil, who was then involved in negotiations on behalf of the union with Bebidas y Alimentos a Colombian Coca-Cola bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia, as he stood in the entrance of the Bebidas y Alimentos plant. They asked him if he was in fact Isidro Gil…Isidro Gil proceeded to open the door and the two paramilitaries then shot him to death inside the plant. That same night, these same paramilitaries went to the local union hall of Sinaltrainal and started a fire...[2]

[edit] Paramilitary threats

Two days after Gil's murder the paramilitaries appeared at the Coca-Cola bottling plant. They assembled the workers and told them that Coca-Cola bottling did not want the union at the plant. The paramilitaries explained that the workers had the option of either resigning from the union or leaving Carepa altogether otherwise they would be killed. The paramilitaries then proceeded to direct the workers into the manager’s office to sign resignation forms which were prepared by the manager of Coca-Cola bottling plant Ariosto Mosquera. As a result of the threats of the paramilitaries, workers resigned en masse from Sinaltrainal union.[3]

[edit] Destruction of the union

In fear for their lives...the remainder of the local Sinaltrainal executive board, fled Carepa after this meeting on December 7, 1996. As a result of the flight of these individuals and the resignation of the other workers from the union, the local Sinaltrainal union in Carepa was destroyed. This union has never returned to Carepa.[4] The company broke off contract negotiations, the paramilitaries camped outside the plant gate for the next two months, and the union was crushed. Experienced workers who made about $380 a month were replaced by new hires earning minimum wage ($130 a month).[5]

  1. ^  Mooney, Green, Gleason Baker, Gibson & Saindon Law office (2001). Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola plaintiff's complaint. Mooney, Green, Gleason Baker, Gibson & Saindon Law office. Retrieved on April 9, 2006. [PDF file]
  2. ^ Author unknown. Coke Can't Hide its Crimes in Colombia. killercoke.org. Retrieved on April 9, 2006.

Also a new page: Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola/Temp has been started, once this page has been deleted. UltimatePower 14:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

If you want something done, you need to do it yourself, asking on a talk page for others to do something rarely works. I will rewrite this later.Travb (talk) 15:54, 2 June 2006 (UTC)


The original article has now been replaced by the temp one. Kcordina Talk 10:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)