On 26 November 2011, 39 long-term casual workers received their permanent appointment letters at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Lahore.This is part of the ongoing negotiations by the Coca-Cola unions in the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Workers (NFFBTW) [1], to increase the proportion of permanent jobs and reduce precarious work at Coca-Cola Pakistan’s six bottling plants.

This follows from the comprehensive agreement signed in 2010 [2].

With the new appointments union membership at the Lahore plant is now 223.

Union representatives from all six Coca-Cola plants, NFFBTW and the IUF
Pakistan Office attended a celebration organized by the Coca-Cola Lahore
union on the day appointment letters were issued.

In August 2011, 75 casual workers were made permanent at Coca-Cola Faisalabad and Coca-Cola Rahim Yar Khan. [3]