The National Union of Food Industry Workers is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n food industry

Food industry

The food production is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population...

 trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

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The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Panamco

Panamco

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, a Colombian Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

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 bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by right-wing paramilitary

Paramilitary

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 groups such as the AUC in order to prevent unionisation. They are a central focus of the ongoing Coca-Cola boycott movement http://killercoke.org/ prevalent across college campus

Campus

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es worldwide (see criticism of Coca-Cola

Criticism of Coca-Cola

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).