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Panama: Eleven years of a conflict between PPC and ex-workers of Port Authority
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Eleven years ago the Panama Ports Company got a concession to manage Panamanian Ports at the gates of the Panama Canal — Balboa and Cristobal. They made a contract with Panamanian State to get this concession. This concession began a conflict between ex-workers of these Ports and PPC.
These Port Authority's ex-workers says PPC violated a law written in 1992. The law states that during any privatization of State property, including land and enterprises, the workers must be offered to buy shares of the land or company. The contract doesn't state any offer of shares to the ex-workers.
Representatives of ex-workers claim that they must receive a pay, because the shares were not offered to them.
On the last 3 years, Jose Sanchez has set some meetings with PPC representatives. Almost all meeting were suspended because PPC representatives have not attended them.
It may seem that no one in Panama outside the engaged parties knows about the dispute. According to Mr. Sanchez there is a mass media campaign to hide events of this conflict.
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