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Article

14 Mar 2003

Author:
IUF - International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations

Burma: Why the Boycott Continues

...Some 300 transnational companies are active in Burma, in direct or indirect partnership with the military (the list is available on the ICFTU web site). The IUF campaigned persistently for PepsiCo and the French-based Accor hotel group to disinvest. We will be stepping up the pressure on British-American Tobacco (BAT), the last significant TNC in our sectors to profit from repression in Burma.