European trade unions plan action at Coca-Cola Enterprises
8 October 2010
European trade unions at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) are
planning coordinated action on 27 October against the company's
European wide restructuring, which is being pushed through without
proper consultation.
On 5 October CCE trade unions met in Brussels to devise a
strategy to force CCE to fully engage with its workforces over
restructuring, which will include over 400 job cuts. While CCE is
paying lip service to consultation, the European trade unions do
not believe that this consultation will be meaningful and fear that
CCE will force through the measures with few, if any, concessions
or changes to its original plans.
The joint trade unions are demanding as a minimum that there
should be meaningful consultations, no forced redundancies and the
company should find suitable alternative jobs for those who are
displaced.
Coca-Cola workers at a bottling plant in Edmonton, north London
took strike action on Wednesday 6 October in a dispute over pay.The
110 Unite members at the plant voted by a massive eight to one
majority to reject the company’s two per cent pay offer.
Unite national officer Jennie Formby said: "The company's
refusal to enter into meaningful negotiations to end the strike at
Edmonton sends a clear message that CCE wants to dictate rather
than negotiate. European unions across CCE are planning coordinated
action beginning with demonstrations at the end of October. The
unions will not allow CCE to push through changes without the
unions being fully involved and they expect a commitment to no
forced redundancies."
ENDS
Contact: Ciaran Naidoo on 07768 931 315
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