The National Union of Food Industry Workers (Spanish: Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos, SINALTRAINAL) is a Colombian food industry trade union. They have repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Coca-Cola and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by paramilitary groups such as the AUC , . They are a central focus of the ongoing Coke-boycott movement ^* across college campuses.

Notes

• ^* Amnesty International (AI) report 27 August 2003 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL vice-president Juan Carlos Galvis
• ^* AI report 23 September 2005 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL member José Onofre Esquivel Luna

See also

• Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola

External links

• http://www.sinaltrainal.org/

Trade unions of Colombia

SINALTRAINAL | Sindacato Nazionale dei Lavoratori dell'Industria Alimentare