Global Workplace Rights

In The Coca-Cola Company's Manifesto for Growth, we commit to being a leader in corporate responsibility and express our aspiration to be among the world's most respected companies. Among the keys to earning that respect is maintaining world-class standards for fair and dignified treatment of all the people who work for The Coca-Cola Company. We communicate this commitment in our Workplace Rights Policy and Human Rights Statement.

Our Workplace Rights Policy (the "Policy") serves to ensure that we apply a consistent approach to workplace rights worldwide -- as an integral part of our culture, strategy and day-to-day operations.

The Policy contains our principles on freedom of association, forced labor, child labor, discrimination, work hours and wages, safe and healthy workplaces, workplace security and community and stakeholder engagement. The Workplace Rights Policy applies to the Company and all of the entities it owns or in which it holds a majority interest. In total, this represents more than 90,500 associates in more than 200 countries. The Policy implementation program includes training all of our associates around the world, assessments at our workplaces, and providing a confidential employee reporting process. The Company has shared the Policy with our independent bottling partners and is committed to working with and encouraging them to uphold the principles in the Policy and to adopt similar policies within their businesses.

The Human Rights Statement (the "Statement") communicates our pledge to manage our business around the world in accordance with the highest standards of integrity with a specific emphasis on human rights in the workplace.

Both the Policy and the Statement also express our commitment to the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, a voluntary agreement we entered that challenges businesses to advance human rights, labor standards and environmental practices and to combat corruption.
Accordingly, we respect the rights of our associates to join -- or not join -- labor unions, and ensure that those rights are exercised without fear of retaliation, repression or any other form of intimidation or discrimination. We comply with all applicable labor and employment laws in the countries in which we do business. We recognize international labor standards and are committed to respecting the workplace and human rights of our associates and the parties with whom we do business.

Our extensive labor relations experience indicates that labor relations matters are best handled at the local level, where the greatest knowledge and capability to manage such issues exists. Local issues with broader implications are reviewed more broadly as needed. We foster relationships with labor unions and their representatives at the local, national, and international levels, and appreciate the perspective that these relationships provide.

In short, implementation of the Workplace Rights Policy -- in conjunction with a pledge to uphold the principles outlined in our Human Rights Statement and the United Nations Global Compact -- will help ensure that what we do with respect to workplace rights and labor relations aligns with what we say.
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The Coca-Cola Company and the IUF
In 2005, we reached an unprecedented agreement with the the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF), the global union federation representing the largest number of unionized system associates. The IUF had criticized our practices in the past. In the agreement, we established an ongoing working relationship with the IUF, including meeting twice a year to discuss workplace practices and issues.