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Banana Workers' Strike Ends in Panama After Pension Agreement
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Panama: Workers in the banana plantations end standout after government intervention. But conflict potential remains. It is created by the US.
Banana Workers' Strike Ends in Panama After Pension Agreement
Banana workers in Panama end their six-week strike after reaching a pension reform agreement. With Chiquita's operations halted and over 6,500 workers dismissed, concerns remain about the industry's future.
The workers of the U.S. banana company Chiquita Brands in Panama raised protests and roadblocks on Wednesday after reaching an agreement on pensions. Chiquita’s employees went on strike on April 28 and since then blocked roads in the Caribbean province of Bocas del Toro, bordering Costa Rica, after a pension reform approved by Congress that eliminated some of the benefits these workers had. Bananas accounted for 17.5% of Panamanian exports durin…
Dispute over pension reform: Since April, banana workers had been on strike and blocked important roads in Panama. Now there is an agreement.
Santa Maria Times
Independent EspañolPANAMA CITY (AP) — Banana industry leaders reached an agreement Wednesday with the legislature to immediately lift roadblocks in Bocas del Toro, the largest banana-producing province in the country.
For some reason, the Panamanian government, headed by José Raúl Mulino, achieved, in just a few months, what no one had achieved in almost ten years: closing the Darién stopper. That is, blocking the passage of thousands of migrants who undertake the suicide operation of crossing the border between Colombia and Panama through the jungle of death. Darién is a tropical forest, humid, torrid and so densely moored that it prevents the transit throug…
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