1.   Banana workers held several strikes last year demanding increased security in Uraba.

2.   The banana workers say that the quality of the land and housing they were offered was inferior and that the ownership titles are in dispute.

3.   They have made and unmade governments, installed and deposed dictators, and frequently called in the army to repress strikes by banana workers.

4.   Panamanian banana workers waged a weeklong strike in August to demand that the company reopen plantations shut down because of the production decline.

5.   Outside the hotel where shareholders met, Cincinnati activists held banners supporting the banana workers.

6.   And others have stayed in their three-room wood-slat homes, which several generations of banana workers often share.

7.   Chiquita said Wednesday it is moving as quickly as possible to replant Central American banana plantations wrecked by Hurricane Mitch, but advocates for banana workers urged faster action.

8.   In Independence, a town of banana industry workers, Iris ripped the roof off a high school that had been converted into a shelter.

9.   The banana workers are demanding back pay from the debt-ridden company.

10.   The Enquirer articles alleged that Chiquita security guards intimidated, shot and even killed one banana worker.