Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses
Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses
Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers in Panama who have been out on strike for more than three weeks as part of nationwide protests against reforms to the social security system.
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.
This is union busting and is exactly what unions are meant to fight.
No more Chiquitas for me then 😎👍
This doesn’t even make the top-10 list of evil shit Chiquita has done. Some examples:
You should already be boycotting them, for more information look up Chiquita terrorism
Fuck Chiquita and never let people forget that they're just a rebranded United Fruit Company
Here's to hoping they burn down the plantations for good measure. Fuck Chiquita
“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.
In a banana republic, what's a president but a local representative of the company?
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.
Buy fairtrade bananas; it's relatively easy to switch
I wish the 5000 workers a very successful taking over of all their shit
What do 5,000 people do when they no longer have a job and are going hungry? It's time for a riot
Did they try calling the CIA? Or maybe this is the call.
Banana Republic II, Electric Boogaloo, coming to a country near you
Oh, no - not my rich people's yacht money!
banana war
insert beaten to death banana republic joke here
I wonder how this will effect the invasion?