Edinburgh Evening News - Students to vote for a Coke boycott at unions STUDENTS are set to ban Coca-Cola from shops and bars at Edinburgh University over alleged human rights abuses at an overseas factory.
The Edinburgh University Students’ Association is next month expected to back a proposed boycott of the giant drinks firm.
The move would mean the company would lose its £120,000-a-year contract with EUSA and all advertising rights in buildings owned by the student union.
Eleven other universities worldwide - including four in England - have already introduced similar boycotts.
A global campaign was launched amid allegations that Colombian workers who attempted to unionise one of the firm’s factories were tortured, and another activist was murdered outside the plant’s gates.
