Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino had said earlier Thursday that the strike was illegal and included some 5,000 workers.
“Unfortunately, following the unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations and operations centers since April 28 and continuing today, (the company) has proceeded with the termination of all of our daily workers,” the company said in a statement. It said the company had suffered losses of at least $75 million.
Protests marches and occasional roadblocks have stretched from one end of the country to the other as teachers, construction workers and other unions expressed their rejection to changes the government said were necessary to keep the social security system solvent.
No more Chiquitas for me then 😎👍
This doesn’t even make the top-10 list of evil shit Chiquita has done. Some examples:
This is union busting and is exactly what unions are meant to fight.
Fuck Chiquita and never let people forget that they’re just a rebranded United Fruit Company
I wish the 5000 workers a very successful taking over of all their shit
I buy bananas all the time. Bananas are dirt cheap and I imagine they are dirt cheap because the labor costs are so low. I feel like I will be financially okay if I had to pay an extra dollar for a bundle of bananas.
“We don’t know how to talk to (union) leader Francisco Smith about the enormous damage his intransigence is causing the Bocas del Toro job sector,” Mulino said. Bocas del Toro is Panama’s westernmost province and borders Costa Rica.
Not to pick tooo much on CEOs (they are so hardworking after all, I am inspired every time I think about all the labor they have stolen from me!), but it sounds like a CEO skill issue here.
Not a CEO, he’s the president of Panama.
Sorry, had my Dole goggles on, all I could see was money and I became disoriented for a second.
Why do I feel like every time when I put these Dole goggles on, when I take them off I am always digging shallow graves for piles of bodies for some reason?
Dear fellow Netizen, astute observer of events, and elegant writer, might this “digging”/“piles of bodies” you’re referring to have anything to do with what effectively amount to war crimes committed by Chiquita leadership against people via murderous paramilitary death squads some while back?
