date:Jun 03, 2013
A strike at the Venezuelan division of Coca-Cola Femsa , Latin America's largest Coke bottler, reached its ninth day on Wednesday as the company said the stoppage had cost it 15 percent of its expected sales for the month.
Some 50 workers protesting for higher wages soldered shut the gates of the company's largest plant in the central-western city of Valencia, preventing products and personnel from entering or leaving the compound, the company said.
During the course of the strike, 15 percent