Don't buy Coca Cola - Support the Unions!!

Coca-Cola Union Asks Customers To Boycott Coke

By MARA LEE, maralee@courant.com
The Hartford Courant

[This is edited and reformatted. Please read original article in full for a less biased take on the story]
Teamsters Local 1035 members, who began striking a week ago, plan to hand out leaflets asking customers to boycott Coke at local stores, and will publicize the boycott at Six Flags New England theme park, the Dave Matthews concert on Saturday, and Rock Cats baseball games[...]

C-town of East Hartford, the closest store to the Art Deco-influenced brick bottling plant, has Coca-Cola advertising logos on its automatic doors. Manager William Moronta said not many people are buying Coke products since the strike began. And once the inventory is gone, he won't replenish it.

"We are not purchasing any. We want to support the guys," he said.

[...YAY for William Moronta! ...]

The workers, who make about $20 an hour, want to preserve the status quo of health insurance without employee-paid premiums. They say they gave up $2.65 an hour over the life of the last contract in order to have fully employer-paid premiums.