SINALTRAINAL

SINALTRAINAL

The National Union of Food Industry Workers (Spanish: "Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos", SINALTRAINAL) is a Colombian food industry trade union.

The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Panamco, a Colombian Coca-Cola bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by paramilitary groups such as the AUC,ref|amnesty2003.ref|amnesty2005 They are a central focus of the ongoing Coke-boycott movement [http://killercoke.org/] across college campuses.

Notes

* [http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR230572003?open&of=ENG-394] Amnesty International (AI) report 27 August 2003 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL vice-president Juan Carlos Galvis
* [http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR230312005?open&of=ENG-394] AI report 23 September 2005 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL member José Onofre Esquivel Luna

ee also

*Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola

External links

* http://www.sinaltrainal.org/


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