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Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India

Pension funds and big investors are pressuring Coca-Cola, Pepsico and others over brutal working conditions in India’s cane fields. Some of the sugar buyers are tiptoeing toward change.

© Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times

Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.
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