Chiquita: Wing strike for a month – the subsidiary releases everybody | EUROtoday

After a one-month strike, the Panamaic subsidiary of the US banana firm Chiquita desires to dismiss all of its remaining staff within the Central American nation. The authorities knowledgeable the corporate about eager to terminate the greater than 1600 staff this week, stated Minister of Labor Panama, Jackeline Muñoz, on Monday. Chiquita had already introduced in May to alleviate a number of thousand harvest helpers due to the strike.

The employees of the banana plantation within the Caribbean province of Bocas del Toro had kicked on April twenty eighth. The union protest is directed in opposition to a pension reform that had beforehand been handed by the nation’s congress. The unions require to reintroduce earlier guidelines as a result of they’d have secured higher pensions and well being care to employees.

Strike is alleged to have brought about lack of at the least $ 75 million

A court docket in Panama had declared the strike illegally. The resignation within the province, which relies upon closely on tourism and the banana cultivation, led to street closures and items bottlenecks, in accordance with Chiquita, the strike additionally brought about losses of at the least $ 75 million.

After negotiations with the unions, the federal government of President Jose Raúl Mulino agreed to current a draft regulation that grants the employees on banana plantations the social advantages – on the situation that they cancel the roadblocks. However, the unions refuse so long as the design will not be adopted.