Nearly a month after Coca-Cola Iberian Partners announced that it would shutter 4 of its 11 plants, Coca Cola Spain is worried about the threat to boycott its protest and about growing social rejection. With the deadline of the statutory consultation for the social plan coming near, the management, which stood on its ground, changed its strategy and offered, on February 18, to turn the layoffs into redeployments and voluntary leaves. The unions refused the offer and keep demanding the maintenance of all the Spanish sites.
“Madrid doesn’t manufacture, Madrid doesn’t drink.” Workers at Coca Cola’s Fuenlabrada bottling plant, south of the capital, are organizing a boycott to protest against the announcement of the closing of their plant and 3 other out of the group’s 11 sites in Spain. Nearly one month after the management announced the closing of 4 of its 11 production factories, where Coca Cola Iberian Partners bottles the group’s drinks for Spain only, social protest is growing. The restructuring plan is...
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