Hoffa, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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"It's time that Coke stop studying their problems and start negotiating a
global human rights agreement that will protect the rights and safety of all
workers who produce, package, and distribute Coca-Cola products," said James
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DALLAS----Anti-competitive forces are
attempting to derail the Texas Legislature's Sunset efforts aimed at
addressing issues specific to electric deregulation. "Texas legislators should halt this plot by
eliminating subversive attempts to open the door for consumer
exploitation.

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Teamsters Call for Negotiated Global Agreement

WASHINGTON , The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters today charged that the proposed International Labour Organization
(ILO) investigation and evaluation of labor relations and human rights
practices at Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) bottling facilities in Colombia will not
address egregious violations of workers rights throughout Coca-Cola's
worldwide network.

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.
"It is easy to envision a scenario where unscrupulous power
providers simply factor in a tiny $25,000 fine as a 'cost of doing
business' to create huge losses for the very competitors who are
committed to consumer interests ," added Eddleman.

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Provisions that threaten the savings that consumers currently
enjoy within the amendments would:

Remove criminal penalties for willful and knowing violations

Immunize market manipulators from civil damages for antitrust
violations, market abuses or fraud

Delete many key customer protections

An aspect of the House's version of SB408 causing significant
concern is the apparent deregulated electric market imbalance being
perpetuated, as these amendments seek to replace the standard
antitrust and fraud remedies with an extremely narrow remedy.

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Texas
homeowners and small businesses will never see the full advantages
promised under competition as long as a few market dominant companies
are allowed to continue rigging wholesale market prices .
"SB408 is basically a good bill that is being forced down a dark
path," noted Eddleman. And Texans should voice their opposition to this
threatening scheme that leaves them exposed to potential market
abuses.

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An escalating campaign by students against Coca-Cola for its human rights
violations forced colleges such as Rutgers, University of Michigan, and
Hofstra to cancel lucrative contracts with Coca-Cola. The Texas Energy
Association for Marketers opposes certain House amendments to SB408
and calls on all Texans to express their opposition to the lack of
public discussion and debate being allowed at the hand of a few market
dominant companies.

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Jane Nelson, sponsors of SB408, who
have attempted to protect Texas consumers.

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The
Association also commends the efforts of fair-minded legislators such
as Rep."

About Texas Energy Association for Marketers

TEAM is a non -profit association established to inform, educate
and advocate on behalf of Texas energy market participants before
working groups, legislative and regulatory policymakers.

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The
association encourages continued market development and initiatives
beneficial to both the market and the energy consumer .

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"This piecemeal approach doesn't protect
the rights and safety of workers throughout the vast Coca -Cola system.

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If the bill becomes law in its current form,
resulting market turmoil could eliminate competition, sustain
artificially high electric prices, and deter new investment within
Texas.

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Referred
to as "disgorgement of unjust profits" received by the wrongdoers,
this Trojan horse will be extraordinary in that it completely divorces
wrongdoers' unlawful actions from the harm caused to families,
businesses and the new investors that deregulation brings to Texas.

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If
left in its present state, SB408 would make it impossible for
aggrieved parties, including Texas consumers , to make themselves whole
when harmed by anticompetitive and fraudulent conduct. "The pandemonium
caused by these abusers would eliminate competition in the long term,
and Texas consumers would ultimately pay a hidden tax in the form of
artificial price spikes in the wholesale electric market . Burt Solomons and Sen.

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The campaign, sparked by
reports of murder, kidnapping and torture from Coca -Cola workers in Colombia,
has inspired other workers to come forward with their experiences of workers '
rights abuses in countries such as Guatemala, Turkey and the United States. and Canada including more than
18,000 Coca-Cola workers.

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Coke's Proposed ILO Study in Colombia Ignores Record of Worker Abuse Worldwide

"Their misguided influence on House
amendments to SB408 will leave everyone at the mercy of market
manipulators who have already demonstrated a willingness to abuse
consumers , crush competition, and flout antitrust laws and Public
Utility Commission rules.

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"This is Classic Coke corporate damage control that fails to confront and
resolve these gross human rights violations," said Jack Cipriani,
International Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
the world's largest Coca-Cola union. This would force consumers to buy power from the 'last man
standing' at a price that is too high for any to bear."
TEAM supports SB408 in it is original, unmolested form.

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4 million
hardworking men and women throughout the U.

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Texas Legislature Debates Bill that Strips Protections for Energy Consumers and Businesses; Legislators Should Preserve Savings + Benefits of Deregulation

"This select group and its army of lobbyists are attempting to
hijack energy deregulation," said Neil Eddleman, President and
Executive Director for TEAM .