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.
Did they try calling the CIA? Or maybe this is the call.
Here’s to hoping they burn down the plantations for good measure. Fuck Chiquita
This is union busting and is exactly what unions are meant to fight.
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
No more Chiquitas for me then 😎👍
This doesn’t even make the top-10 list of evil shit Chiquita has done. Some examples:
What do 5,000 people do when they no longer have a job and are going hungry? It’s time for a riot
“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?
Oh that is horrible and totally against my values!
puts Dole goggles on again in apparent contradiction to the last words out of my mouth
What is it about people in Central America and their culture that makes them so unwilling to work hard like the rest of us? I think we need to impress upon them a more 'Murican work ethic for their own good. Look at how much of a mess their country is and they all want to come here anyways because they are jealous of the kind of society hardworking white christians made.
takes off Dole goggles again
It is just too bad tragedies happen all over the world sigh
/s
…in case the anger at my own country, the US, for causing so much harm to Panama, Guatemala and other countries in the region didn’t come through properly.
For more context check out the Behind The Bastards episode series “How the U.S.A. Murdered Panama”
Also did I mix up my countries crimes against Hawaiians vs Central Americans with the Dole reference? There are just too many to keep straight oh dear
In a banana republic, what’s a president but a local representative of the company?
Oh, no - not my rich people’s yacht money!
banana war
