By IANS
Caracas : Latin America’s leading bottling unit, Venezuela’s Coca-Cola Femsa, has sought to invoke government’s intervention in ending the blockade of its plant by former workers demanding reinstatement.
Rodrigo Anzola, legal chief of Coca-Cola Femsa, at a press conference Monday asked the authorities to “act and end the blockades to which our installations are being subjected,” EFE news agency reported Tuesday.
Since Feb 5, former distributors and drivers of the company have been blockading 12 distribution centres and a bottling plant located in the western city of Maracaibo, the second largest city of Venezuela.
Anzola said that the “siege of the firm’s plants is illegal and is being orchestrated by ex-transport workers who are requesting a payment of $520 million.”
The company has no “legal obligation” to the picketers, he said.
Meanwhile, Coca-Cola Femsa workers Monday turned up in a rally demanding that their “right to work” be respected.