I wonder how this will effect the invasion?
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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I wish the 5000 workers a very successful taking over of all their shit
Fuck Chiquita and never let people forget that they're just a rebranded United Fruit Company
Oh my fucking god they’re still called plantations
Plantation never was the dirty word in history. Slavery is the dirty word.
Never said it was a dirty word
Well yeah that's where they got the plants(bananas)
Banana Republic II, Electric Boogaloo, coming to a country near you
insert beaten to death banana republic joke here
This is union busting and is exactly what unions are meant to fight.
No more Chiquitas for me then 😎👍
You should already be boycotting them, for more information look up Chiquita terrorism
This doesn’t even make the top-10 list of evil shit Chiquita has done. Some examples:
Here's to hoping they burn down the plantations for good measure. Fuck Chiquita
I buy bananas all the time. Bananas are dirt cheap and I imagine they are dirt cheap because the labor costs are so low. I feel like I will be financially okay if I had to pay an extra dollar for a bundle of bananas.
Buy fairtrade bananas; it's relatively easy to switch
That shit has proven to be a scam in coffee the farmers are slightly better off but not really and I'm over here getting bent over for 12oz coffee bags that all used to be 16oz before. The middleman still getting theirs in the fair trade game.
What you consider proof and what I consider proof might be different, so do you have a link to show what, SPECIFICALLY, you're talking about? I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just saying I don't believe stuff randos on the Internet tell me unless they have links so I can know what they know
Here is a well researched article from Stanford, they do also mention banana lol https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_problem_with_fair_trade_coffee
When I say scam I mean on us the consumer. Paying more getting worse.
My goal of buying fair trade isn’t to get the best coffee beans, it’s to support a company that provides a living wage to their workers. The article just focuses on how it impacts the owners of the farms and quality of coffee but doesn’t mention laborers at all.
The main issue with fair trade maybe not being especially fair is you have to buy into the system, those who can’t afford to join are often the farms that need the most help because they’re the poorest. So it’s a system that makes sure the poorest farms are excluded which is obviously problematic. The program it’s self can be beneficial but the price that fair trade kicks in it is too low for a lot of farms to survive, which again benefits the richest farms that were not excluded by the buy in. It could be a much fairer system but it’s not “a scam”
I don’t want to link articles to facts like fair trade being buy in or the rates fair trade pays but it’s all available information
Did they try calling the CIA? Or maybe this is the call.
“We don’t know how to talk to (union) leader Francisco Smith about the enormous damage his intransigence is causing the Bocas del Toro job sector,” Mulino said. Bocas del Toro is Panama’s westernmost province and borders Costa Rica.
Not to pick tooo much on CEOs (they are so hardworking after all, I am inspired every time I think about all the labor they have stolen from me!), but it sounds like a CEO skill issue here.
Not a CEO, he's the president of Panama.
Sorry, had my Dole goggles on, all I could see was money and I became disoriented for a second.
Why do I feel like every time when I put these Dole goggles on, when I take them off I am always digging shallow graves for piles of bodies for some reason?
Dear fellow Netizen, astute observer of events, and elegant writer, might this "digging"/"piles of bodies" you're referring to have anything to do with what effectively amount to war crimes committed by Chiquita leadership against people via murderous paramilitary death squads some while back?
Oh that is horrible and totally against my values!
puts Dole goggles on again in apparent contradiction to the last words out of my mouth
What is it about people in Central America and their culture that makes them so unwilling to work hard like the rest of us? I think we need to impress upon them a more 'Murican work ethic for their own good. Look at how much of a mess their country is and they all want to come here anyways because they are jealous of the kind of society hardworking white christians made.
takes off Dole goggles again
It is just too bad tragedies happen all over the world sigh
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...in case the anger at my own country, the US, for causing so much harm to Panama, Guatemala and other countries in the region didn't come through properly.
For more context check out the Behind The Bastards episode series "How the U.S.A. Murdered Panama"
Also did I mix up my countries crimes against Hawaiians vs Central Americans with the Dole reference? There are just too many to keep straight oh dear
This too was excellently written - thank you! :)
In a banana republic, what's a president but a local representative of the company?
What do 5,000 people do when they no longer have a job and are going hungry? It's time for a riot
Oh, no - not my rich people's yacht money!
banana war