[D66] Striking Coca-Cola workers rebel against union in Mexico City

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/27/coca-j27.html

Striking Coca-Cola workers rebel against union in Mexico City
By Andrea Lobo
27 June 2019

Hundreds of Coca-Cola workers in Mexico City and the neighboring State
of Mexico have launched a wildcat strike against the transnational
corporation and the pro-company union. The strike, which takes place in
the heart of Mexico and the largest city in the western hemisphere, is
yet another sign that the working class is moving into struggle against
the world’s most powerful companies around the world.

About 200 workers at the distribution center in Tlalpan, Mexico City,
decided during a mass assembly outside of the plant on Friday to strike.
On Saturday, Coca-Cola plants of similar size in the Mexico City suburbs
of La Viga and Zaragoza joined the strike and supported the demands
advanced by their coworkers in Tlalplan.

On Monday, workers at two more distribution centers in Iztacalco and
Mixcoac stopped work, halting the distribution of Coca-Cola from the
centers in the impoverished industrial belt on the southern periphery of
the megacity. Though four of the plants were coerced back to work, there
is no contract and the situation remains volatile. Another plant that
walked out Wednesday remains on strike.

In recent weeks, Coca-Cola workers in Mexico have been compelled by
management to sign an agreement that cuts their food vouchers and paid
vacations, and eliminates sales commissions that can comprise from a
third to a half of workers’ incomes.

“Sign your resignation or sign this piece of paper,” management told the
workers.

As anger grew at plants, workers began talking to one another on social
media.

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