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chicagobreakingnews.com - 12/8/2008

No end yet to worker sit-in

— chicagobreakingnews.com — The sit-in by laid-off workers at Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors plant will continue for at least... another night after union, company and bank representatives decided to continue negotiating a settlement tomorrow afternoon. A three-hour meeting was ... (more) No end yet to worker sit-in

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ThinkFast: December 16, 2008
Think Progress — ... Bank of America has agreed to extend a loan to Republic Windows and Doors so that it can pay its workers. Since Friday, 250 laid-off employees have been staging a sit-in at the shuttered Chicago factory, protesting the fact that the company gave them just three days notice of the plant’s closing. ...

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Daily Kos — Reuters: Bank of America Corp, accused of insensitivity to the plight of laid-off employees occupying a shuttered Chicago window manufacturing factory, said on Tuesday it would make a loan to the company so it can pay the workers. "We have reached out and made the offer," Bank of America spokeswoman Julie Westerman said. "The reason we're doing it is because the company did not pay its employees and we're trying to do the right thing for the workers." However the situation was far from resolved at Republic Windows & Doors, as some 250 ...