Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Whoops

MN Daily:
The most obvious example is Coca-Cola, which has been accused of having union leaders murdered at its Colombian bottling plants and stealing water from villages in India. Despite this and the growing list of international injustices, the University continues to deal with the Coca-Cola Company and has not brought a public demand to Coca-Cola.
Quite a bit misleading. Coke did not "order" the execution as the editorial implies, they unknowingly hired anti-union bottlers who took it upon themselves to execute eight union leaders. Coke was dismissed as a defendant from a recent lawsuit brought forth by a murdered union leader. The problem is not Coke, but the fact that Colombia is a hell hole, over 1,800 union leaders alone have been brutally murdered over the past 12 years. This is not equivalent to the corporate scandals of Nestle, Enron, or WorldCom, among others. The blame rests in the lawlessness and unrest in Colombia, not Coke.