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28 Oct 2009

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Compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Students and Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) report re: contract labourers at bottling plants & company responses [China]

In September 2009, China Labor News Translations published a report, "Chinese Students Go Undercover to Investigate Coca-Cola", regarding the campaign of the Hong-Kong based Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) against Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages with respect to alleged labour abuses at bottling plants in China. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages to respond...Subsequently, on 14 October 2009, SACOM issued an "Open Letter to Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages". The Resource Centre invited both companies to respond again...

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