Panama Canal Workers' Union Claims U.S. Owes More Than $1 Billion in Severance Pay

The United States left the Panama Canal Zone without paying its employees more than $1 billion in severance pay, social security and other benefits, the workers' union charged in a lawsuit. The suit filed in Miami seeks compensatory and punitive damages for 30,000 Panamanian civilians employed by canal administrators, the U.S. military and other U.S. agencies since the 1970s.

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