Article: Nepal's Coke bottler runs into labour trouble

Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication.

Kathmandu, Sept. 25 -- After multinationals Dabur Nepal and United Telecom Ltd, it's now the turn of Bottlers Nepal, the sole bottler of Coca-Cola products in Nepal, to run into labour trouble in the Himalayan republic with production slowing down over bonus demands.

Five labour unions, including those affiliated to the ruling Maoist party and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress party, disrupted work at Bottlers Nepal's two factories in Balaju, Kathmandu and Bharatpur in Chitwan district along the Indo-Nepal border, demanding a hefty bonus for the coming Nepali festival of Dashain.

The dispute ...

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