Apple comes out and says it

[think]

22. The situtation is very complex. However, complacency will not resolve the situation.

There are many ways to expose and shame corporate America for their implicit involvement. These corporations are not "innocent victims" but rather willing participants in exploiting the poor working class in undeveloped and communist countries.

As long as the American people turn a blind eye to the exploitation of the third world by our corporations the conditions for these people will continue to deteriorate.

Union leaders in these countries are being assassinated on a regular basis once again and America should not support this. A recent example:

An oil union leader and his wife were killed Tuesday in front of their children in southwestern Colombia.

Mauricio Arrendondo and his wife Janeth Ordoñez Carlosama were assassinated during the night by two hitmen on January 17, at their home in the southwestern department of Putamayo, according to a statement released by the petroleum trade union USO.

Full article:

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/21624-oil-union-leader-and-wife-killed-in-southwest-colombia.html

http://www.icem.org/en/3-Energy-Oil-and-Gas/4847-ICEM-Condemns-Assassination-of-USO-Leader-His-Wife-in-Colombia

Although these assassinations may not be directly connected to US corps and or their subsidiaries and partner companies as I've not had time to research this particular incident, there are other more blatant examples of the involvement by US multinational corporations in the assassinations of union leaders like the Coca Cola company.

Coca Cola has a long history of violence against unions especially in Guatemala and it is starting up again:

In a 1987 booklet, "Soft Drink, Hard Labour," the Latin America Bureau in London said:
"For nine years the 450 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City fought a battle for their jobs, their trade union and their lives. Three times they occupied the plant — on the last occasion for 13 months. Three General Secretaries of their union were murdered and five other workers killed. Four more were kidnapped and have disappeared. Against all the odds they survived, thanks to their own extraordinary courage and help from fellow trade unionists in Guatemala and around the world.
"A huge international campaign of protests and boycotts was central to their struggle. As a result, the Coca-Cola workers forced concessions from one of the world's largest multinational food giants and kept the Guatemalan trade union movement alive through a dark age of government repression."
What happened at the Coke bottling plant in Guatemala in the '70s and '80s is happening again in Coke bottling plants in Guatemala and continues in Colombia....


Full article:
http://killercoke.org/lawsuits_2010_guatemala.php

Coca-Cola Accused of Using Death Squads to Target Union Leaders
By Garry Leech · July 23, 2001 · Save & Share
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida accuses the Coca-Cola Company, its Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the multinational soft drink manufacturer’s Colombian bottling plants. The suit was filed on July 20 by the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union that represents workers at Coca-Cola’s Colombian bottling plants; the estate of a murdered union leader; and five other unionists who worked for Coca-Cola and were threatened, kidnapped or tortured by paramilitaries.

Colombia has long been the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists with almost 4,000 murdered in the past 15 years. Last year saw 128 labor leaders assassinated. Most of the killings have been attributed to right-wing paramilitaries belonging to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), who view union organizers as subversives and, therefore, “legitimate” targets in their dirty war against Colombia’s guerrilla insurgents. Three out of every five trade unionists killed in the world are Colombian. The most recent killing of a union leader at one of Coca-Cola’s Colombian bottling plants was June 21 when Oscar Dario Soto Polo was gunned down...

Full article:
http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm