Resolution Calls for Mediated Settlement

WASHINGTON, In response to a growing international
campaign by students, labor and other groups protesting human rights
violations at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia and around the world,
delegates to the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference
unanimously endorsed a resolution today authorizing its leadership to seek a
just resolution of this dispute between the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) and
student, labor and human rights groups .

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Senators Obama and Salazar and Rep. It's up to you!"
Sen. Melissa Bean, (D-IL), told the tradesmen that they
"have a true friend in Ohio's 8th District. and health care and
social security. Pres ..

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..S. that American Labor wants to end poverty and
discrimination.S. "It's long past time for Coca -Cola to
negotiate a global human rights agreement that will protect the rights and
safety of workers who produce, package and distribute Coca-Cola products.
After the resolution was passed, delegates heard from Katishi Masemola,
General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), which
represents approximately 6,000 Coca-Cola workers at three bottling plants in
South Africa. "Our members in South Africa support you in your demand that
Coca-Cola institute a human rights policy ," Katishi said.

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Obama said, "This Administration spent a trillion dollars on tax cuts
for people who didn't need them or ask for them....

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You are reaffirming American values. they don't
want program talk. I support your issues . I support the Highway
Bill because for every one million invested in infrastructure funding, over
47,000 jobs are created. It's time for all
of us to fight hard for social security and pension protection .. We look
forward to working with the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Conference
towards concrete solutions to these human rights indignities.

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It's not right to have two sets of standards for schools and health care .

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.." Obama urged labor leaders not to be discouraged and to
unite in a continued fight to return respect for all workers in America.

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Senator Barack Obama, (D-IL), told conference that there is dignity
in the work they do as a union. Who
will stand up for people who worked 30 years only to have the rug pulled out
from under their pensions? Who will stand up for Social Security? I'll tell
you who.
because they are good for all working people in America. We believe it's not right to have two Americas." He
said, "We can do better.

Teamsters Demand Action from Coca-Cola on Global Rights Standards

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We need to talk about what we care about
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Democrats both need to talk about values like truth, honesty, ethics and hold
the GOP accountable when they claim those values and act in an opposite way. Ken Salazar Supports Transportation Bill To Create American Jobs
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gives a voice to working people!"
"They want to take the security out of social security.
"Coca-Cola's refusal to take the students seriously is having a direct
impact on the company, its reputation and the Teamsters who service university
contracts," said Joe Wojciechowski, President of Teamsters Local 812, which
represents nearly 2,000 Coca-Cola workers in New York.
"Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in
Colombia have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered," said Jim
Hoffa, Teamsters General President .

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Barack Obama Tells Organized Labor To Organize Collectively for
Economic Security
U. Dean said, "Together we can help Central
Pennsylvania and send Rick Santorum back to his fancy house in Virginia!" He
concluded, "There's no political downside to standing up for what you believe
in !"

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"Yappers and pundits on TV say Democrats have forgotten what we stand for
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-AFL-CIO 2005 Legislative Conference ended today with calls for united
political action in Congress and in all 50 states. If we had spent that trillion
dollars on rebuilding the nation's infrastructure , it could have put thousands
of people to work."
Dean said, "I believe Americans are democratic with a big D.. Senator John
Edwards, (D-NC), told the tradesmen that if his brother has health insurance
because of the IBEW union and his mother has health insurance because she was
a union letter carrier ..

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Dean said the Democratic Party and Labor built America and it's up to both
to fix what 's going wrong." He told said labor has faith and must continue to fight with
all passion because America is at a crossroads and "we cannot afford to turn
the clock back on the progress we've made ."
In an effort to reach out to the students who are spearheading campus
protests against Coca -Cola, Teamsters will address a national meeting of the
United Students Against Sweatshops later this week.

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American jobs, controlling health care costs, protecting kids from what is
coming over the TV . Rep.

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Bean Urge Labor to Lobby Hard for
Pro-Worker Bills

WASHINGTON, The Building and Construction Trades
Dept.
That's why I will fight for the Transportation Bill .

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. They voted against their own economic interest because
they're afraid of what's going to happen to their kids... Where I come from, if you believe in something you fight for it. Senator John Edwards Says Labor Organizing Must Be Protected
Because It Gives Voice To Workers
Former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate and U. we have that now! We
have CEO's sitting by the pool paying less taxes than their secretary."
Building Trades President Sullivan adjourned the 3 day conference urging
the 3,000 tradesmen and women to take a pro-worker message home with them to
the streets of their own communities.

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More colleges and universities are likely to follow.

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Building Trades President Edward C. They are the people who share our values and whom we can
count on to fight for American jobs, health care and pension reform, and
workers' rights.. Kennedy, "because I
believe what he believed . "And there is no reason why every American should not
have health insurance."
Edwards received huge applause when he said, "It's not right to have two
economies, one for the wealthy insiders and one for everyone else ...

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It's that we have to do a better
job communicating our values to them.S.
In the United States, student protests have led to universities such as
Rutgers and the University of Michigan to cancel lucrative contracts for Coca-
Cola products .

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Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean Calls For Year-Round 50 State
Strategy To Change Anti-Worker Agenda By GOP Congressional Leaders
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said, "Organized labor
still has the best grassroots in the nation and we need you to win. rights
to organize, worker safety, health care coverage, retirement security .. We know exactly what we stand for because
we can tell right from wrong. "No worker should
have to endure the abuse that our fellow workers in Columbia have had.

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Building Trades Conference Ends with Calls for United Political Action from DNC Chair Dean and Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards

Melissa Bean Says Labor Issues Are Every American Workers' Issues
Freshman U.S..

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He sited treatment of veterans returning from Iraq and Tom Delay's ethics
problems as examples. I believe working families built this country and keep it
strong.

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Sullivan said, "Today we will hear
about the future from people who will be part of making the future better for
working families.. We are
going to all 50 states all the time, not just 18 states before elections. Our problem
isn't that America does not share our values. Ken Salazar, (D-CO), told the audience that he gave his maiden
speech in the Senate from the desk once used by John F..

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S. Three thousand state and
local union leaders attended the Blueprint 2005: United for Progress
conference, which focused on labor and political issues which impact 3 million
building and construction workers and their families across America. We
need you to increase your efforts because we need to keep up the pressure in
every state. It's not
right to be fired for organizing on the job because organizing is good. Bush
talks about how he wants to make an ownership society .

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not talking about a list of programs .." The building trades strongly supported Bean in her
tough election campaign to unseat a long-time anti-union Congressman..
It's not right to have soldiers back from Iraq and Afghanistan have to beg for
back pay and to get health benefits."
Conference Director and Teamster International Vice President, Jack
Cipriani, said Coca-Cola's labor abuses in the United States includes
harassment, intimidation, discrimination and retaliation at CCE facilities as
well as at Odwalla and Minute Maid operations-both wholly owned by the Coca -
Cola Company.

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We have a
right to organize together, collectively for our economic security .

Who
will stand up for minimum wage? Who will stand up for Davis-Bacon? ... those yappers are dead wrong .