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Article

15 Nov 2005

Author:
Associated Press

Coca-Cola sued over Turkish labor dispute

The lawsuit was filed against [Coca-Cola]...its Turkish bottler and other units on behalf of a group of former truck drivers, transport workers and their families. The complaint alleges that management at Coca-Cola Icecek A.S., Coke's Turkish bottler, arranged for the Turkish Cevik Kuvvet, a branch of the Turkish police, to attack, gas and arrest workers and their families at a peaceful demonstration in July, to coerce them to quit organization efforts at Coke facilities...Coke claims that the underlying labor dispute involved an independent third-party distributor that supplies services to its Turkish bottler, rather than the bottler itself...In July, more than 100 protesters illegally broke into the bottler's offices, but no action was taken against them for 10 hours, Coke said. Several meetings were held between the bottler's management and protesters in an attempt to resolve the situation peacefully, the company said. Turkish police eventually removed the protesters. [also refers to Unocal (part of Chevron)]