SACOM Report re: Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages Sep 2009
In September 2009, China Labor News Translations published a report, "Chinese Students Go Undercover to Investigate Coca-Cola", regarding the campaign of the Hong-Kong based Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) against Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages with respect to alleged labour abuses at bottling plants in China.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages to respond. The company responses appear below:
- Swire Beverages response [PDF]
Subsequently, on 14 October 2009, SACOM issued an "Open Letter to Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages". The Resource Centre invited both companies to respond again. Those responses appear below: