The strike by Chiquita banana workers in Panama came to an end this week, after the unions SITRAIBANA and SITRAPBI signed an ...

A labour dispute could potentially mean we see fewer bananas and higher prices at the grocery store. And in another hit to ...

Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the ...

Sven Hoppe/dpa Banana producer Chiquita on Thursday announced it would lay off thousands of workers in Panama, following what it called "unjustified abandonment of work" on its farms and ...

Enea Lebrun/Reuters] Published On 23 May 202523 May 2025 Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday ...

The Panamanian subsidiary of U.S. banana giant Chiquita Brands announced a mass dismissal of workers on Thursday, nearly a month after a strike that has cost the company an estimated US $75 million.

Once again, Art Basel Miami Beach has gone bananas—but this time, the fruit is free, and you might get a really cool Chiquita banana bag to go with it. On the heels of the headline-making $6.2 ...

In late September, Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix, and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), announced the new Yelloway One, a banana hybrid that it says is resistant to ...

Clothing won’t come in,” said Harold ... But some longshoremen will continue making bread. Banana bread, that is. This week, a massive container ship called the Chiquita Voyager arrived in Port ...

Most young people today know Banana Republic as a clothing brand. The name has been the topic of ... where U.S.-based fruit companies such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Brands ...