“Pepsico Argentina: After Violent Eviction, Workers Win Major Legal Battle” – 16 July, 2017

 … “We resisted until the end and we won’t back down,” said workers’ delegate Luis Medina. The snack factory had been occupied since late June, after it had been closed abruptly by the company to move production elsewhere, leaving over 600 workers out on the street. For the following few days during the occupation, the workers began a steadfast resistance that would include road blockages, marches to the town hall of Vicente López, where the factory is located, nationwide mobilizations and a massive campaign in the media and social networks calling for a boycott of the company’s products, marketed under globally popular brands such as Lay’s, Quaker, Doritos, 7UP, Cheetos, Gatorade and Tropicana…The fierceness of the repression that took place in the early morning of last Thursday took even some of the most battle-hardened workers’ delegates by surprise… Just two hours after the repression on July 13, an order was issued by Division 6 of the National Labor Court of Appeals stating that Pepsico had violated the National Law of Employment by dismissing the workers and ordered their reinstatement. The company will also be fined $5,000 per worker for each day in the event of non-compliance…Not only did the company fail to correctly follow the legal proceedings required to dismiss the workers, but the Crisis Prevention Procedure itself fraudulent…[because] the company’s figures for the past year glaringly belie the existence of any such crisis…