this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
206 points (99.5% liked)

Antiwork

9298 readers
242 users here now

  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

Partnerships:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Yayannick@lemmy.ml
uthredii@lemmy.ml
sexy_peach@feddit.de
yogthos@lemmy.ml
206
Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses (apnews.com)
submitted 1 month ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

all 24 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep thinking that strikes being illegal is way too close to slavery for my liking.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Striking has always been the compromise. The owner class has forgotten.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I'm hyped for the wave of reminders

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

Illegal strikes, lol.

What a ridiculous concept.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you want your banana plantation to burn to the ground? Because this is how you get your plantation burned to ashes.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why burn the plantation when you can expropriate it and burn the scumlords profiting off your exploitation?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago

Legally we have to say bananas.

[–] jagged_circle 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fight mass firings with mass fires

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, where are they getting replacement workers?

[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, AI and teslabots will surely replace them! /s

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

$75 million losses

Are they really losses when everyone knows they're just going to raise prices to recoup them?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Might be the excuse Krasnov is looking for to take back the Canal Zone.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Boycoytt Chiquita.

[–] jagged_circle 1 points 1 month ago

Has the price of bananas gone up in US & Canada?