US EditionProtests, $75m Losses, Stall Chiquita's Panama Operations
- On June 3, 2025, Chiquita Panama suspended operations in Bocas del Toro, halting banana planting, packing, export, and administrative work.
- The suspension followed a strike beginning April 28 against pension reforms, causing work abandonment and protests that included highway blockades.
- Chiquita dismissed about 1,600 administrative personnel and called to lay off remaining workers as more than 7,000 employees faced termination amid ongoing losses.
- Labor Minister Jackeline Muoz reported layoffs, while producer Juan Gonzlez estimated losses near $50,000 per contract and overall damages exceeding $75 million.
- The strike's continuation risks further economic damage to Bocas del Toro's banana industry and social stability, suggesting prolonged operational and labor challenges for Chiquita in Panama.
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Reuters Chiquita Panama's administrative staff has left the country, and the company will request government authorization to lay off its remaining staff in Panama, the Central American nation's Labor Minister, Jackeline Muñoz, said on Monday. The news comes after the company laid off approximately 5,000 workers out of a total of 6,500 employees nationwide last month in response to a strike on its banana farms. Chiquita Panama did not immediatel…
In the midst of protests against Law 462, which reforms the social security system in Panama, organized community groups in the province of Bocas del Toro (west) categorically refused to meet with a high-level technical delegation of the Social Security Fund (CSS), demanded the presence of ministers of the government of José Raúl Mulino to express their discomfort and called for the repeal of the controversial regulation. READ ALSO: The Governme…
While protests against pension reform are underway in May, Chiquita released thousands of harvesters in Panama. A court declared the strike illegal. Because the work is still on hold, the U.S. banana giant now wants to terminate his other workers in the country.
The subsidiary of the American banana company Chiquita Brands in Panama will fire the more than 1,600 workers who are still in its workforce, after more than a month of strike. This is what the government reported on Monday, as protests grow in the country.Read more]]>
Panama: National protests against cuts. Government responds with repression and violence
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