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category dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Thursday February 12, 2004 17:05author by coke Report this post to the editors

coke workers give the REAL story

Coke workers reply

A Chairde,

We are reluctant to engage any further with Gearóid Ó Loinsigh — the reason why will become clear. His comments on your letters page (29 January 2004) must be answered if only to do justice to the workers we represent.

It is simply untrue to assert as he does that no offer of solidarity was offered to Colombian trade unionists at the meeting we attended with Eduardo Luis, the Colombian Coca-Cola worker. Why does Ó Loinsigh persist in denying this? The answer is simple: if one does not support a call or an organised boycott, any other form of solidarity is rejected. This is not the behaviour of a solidarity activist; it is the behaviour of a political sectarian.

Ó Loinsigh complains of "body language" and that the meeting translator was "interrupted whilst translating" and "interrupted again when making comments of his own". He fails to mention that both he and the translator were one and the same person.

Here lies the problem. Our attempts to communicate with Eduardo Luis were totally dependent on Mr Ó Loinsigh, whose apparent inability to state or report facts is matched only by his ability to separate himself from himself. The only hostility at the meeting emanated from another Ó Loinsigh initiative, the unexpected presence at the meeting of UCD student officers who had engaged in hostile behaviour towards Coca-Cola shop stewards.

Ó Loinsigh's partisan disregard for the facts leads us to question his 'translations'.

In future we will bring our own translator and, while we have no problem meeting with LASC, we will not be having any more meetings with Mr Ó Loinsigh. We hereby withdraw the longstanding, but predictably ignored, invitation to Mr Ó Loinsigh to discuss repression against Colombian trade unionists. He has never, at any stage, seen fit to consider the views of Irish bottling plant workers.

The IUF, SIPTU and the ICTU have over the past few months met with, questioned Coca-Cola corporate management, and discussed the conditions at bottling plants in Colombia. The meetings have taken place in the US and Ireland.

As Irish bottling plant workers, we have been to the forefront of raising issues of trade union organisation, working conditions, justice and human rights and will continue to work with the International Union of Foodworkers in building global solidarity action and union organisation in the Coca-Cola system.

Paddy Cahill, Branch Chairperson and Senior Shop Steward

Tommy Grant, Senior Shop Steward Production

Gerry Mahony, Senior Shop Steward Production.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Corruption?     Tallaght resident    Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:37 
   Ahem     Muppet watch    Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:08 
   Coca Cola and Sinn Fein     Muppet Watch Watcher    Thu Feb 12, 2004 13:08 
   Has SIPTU put this issue directly to its members?     David    Thu Feb 12, 2004 17:29 
   What letters page?     John Meehan    Thu Feb 12, 2004 18:37 
   put issue to your members     UCDSU member    Thu Feb 12, 2004 19:14 
   Coca-Cola shaking in their boots!     Phuq Hedd    Thu Feb 12, 2004 19:23 
   Two can play at that game     Remember Ennis    Thu Feb 12, 2004 21:07 
   coke bans and coke workers     socialist    Fri Feb 13, 2004 09:05 
 10   Then Let the Coke Workers decide themselves.     David    Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:25 
 11   Reply to Siptu Shop Stewards     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:31 
 12   Original Letter That so annoyed Siptu     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:33 
 13   Responses     Jonah    Fri Feb 13, 2004 13:11 
 14   Jonah misleads     UCDSU member    Fri Feb 13, 2004 13:30 
 15   More "disgusting" things     observer    Fri Feb 13, 2004 13:50 
 16   Don't understand you     Observing observer    Fri Feb 13, 2004 13:59 
 17   ??     observer    Fri Feb 13, 2004 14:10 
 18   Still waiting on SIPTU     Chekov    Fri Feb 13, 2004 14:11 
 19   Party politics     David    Fri Feb 13, 2004 15:01 
 20   Trade Union Principles     Janus    Fri Feb 13, 2004 15:24 
 21   John Meehan     Curious    Fri Feb 13, 2004 15:51 
 22   Surely the whole Union delegate structure is at fault.     David    Fri Feb 13, 2004 16:03 
 23   David     Old timer    Fri Feb 13, 2004 16:08 
 24   In the 19th century..     David    Fri Feb 13, 2004 16:19 
 25   Off Topic     IMC Dalek    Fri Feb 13, 2004 16:26 
 26   Sure, let's leave party politics out of this Janus     Phuq Hedd    Fri Feb 13, 2004 16:57 
 27   Meeting with Speed and co     Dan    Fri Feb 13, 2004 17:17 
 28   Dan the Man     Janus    Fri Feb 13, 2004 19:07 
 29   Response to “Meeting with Speed and co” and other slanders     Anne Speed    Sat Mar 06, 2004 15:20 
 30   Abusive tirade?     Juicy    Sun Mar 07, 2004 16:36 
 31   Legitimate Criticism?     Tuesday    Tue Mar 09, 2004 08:16 


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