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Chiquita Panama fires thousands of seasonal banana workers after a court deems the month-long strike illegal; company cites ...

Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers in Panama who have been out on strike for more than three weeks as part of nationwide protests against reforms to the social security system ...

President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.