Chiquita Panama’s management announced yesterday that it fits all its daily employees in the western province Bokas Del Toroby raising them ‘Unjustified abandonment of their work’ In its banana, amid broader strikes in Panama since late April.

The company proceeds to ‘End’ employment ‘All of our daily employees’said in a statement, stressing that suffered a loss of at least $ 75 million because of the 24 days strikes.

Source adjacent to Tsikita clarified at the news agency Reuters It is some of 5,000 of its total of 6,500 employees in the state of Central America.

Thousands of banana plantations workers in Panama strike amid broader mobilizations in the country against reforms promoted by the president’s conservative government Jose Raulespecially in social security funds and pensions.

The company said that its workers were dismissed in its offices for their salaries and compensation if they are entitled.