Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/38551804
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.
https://apnews.com/article/panama-protests-chiquita-bananas-0c95a19e3186caeb8fa617be999ca485Open linkView original on lemmy.world
I keep thinking that strikes being illegal is way too close to slavery for my liking.
Striking has always been the compromise. The owner class has forgotten.
I'm hyped for the wave of reminders
Illegal strikes, lol.
What a ridiculous concept.
Do you want your banana plantation to burn to the ground? Because this is how you get your plantation burned to ashes.
Fight mass firings with mass fires
So what are the reforms sought that the government is trying for force onto workers in lockstep with major declining states? Can I guess longer working years, reduced benefits...?
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It's global. Denmark just increased retirement age by 3 years. The UK is trying their best to serve their wealthy masters and worsen their system. The fascists running the US right now claim social security is "insolvent" but have passed decades of giveaways to wealthy and corporations instead of funding social security and many other basics....all on the eve of trillions in giveaways of their proposed budget.
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So, where are they getting replacement workers?
Don't worry, AI and teslabots will surely replace them! /s
They're probably getting the same workers back after they each grow a mustache.
It's hard to make a firing stick when the boss is so racist he can't tell his workers apart.
Are they really losses when everyone knows they're just going to raise prices to recoup them?
Might be the excuse Krasnov is looking for to take back the Canal Zone.
Boycoytt Chiquita.
Has the price of bananas gone up in US & Canada?
The right to work should be a basic human right.
Don’t use that anti-union dog whistle.
How about the right to a decent wage and safe working conditions? Because "right to work" without those things is just forced labor (slavery).
You are absolutely right. My comment was more about preventing corporations from being able to fire workers arbitrarily when it becomes inconvenient for them.
In 2020, 23 million Americans were laid off with no warning and no option to find work when the pandemic hit. A person should be protected from that happening to them ever again in addition to the right to a livable wage and safe work conditions (i.e. the right to work).
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/jobtracker/
How do those bootheels taste?