nytimes.com - 12/8/2008
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Laid-off workers are occupying a Chicago plant, arguing that the financial bailout ignores regular workers. >
huffingtonpost.com - 12/9/2008
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Since Friday, 240 members of the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), a small...
but feisty union that has always been in the progressive wing of the labor movement, have displayed uncommon courage. They have illegally occupied ...
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Peter Dreier: Chicago Factory Sit-In: A Symbol of What's ...
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Barack Obama, Community Organizer, Welcome Back! Obama Defends Shafted Workers in Hometown of Chicago.
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... and mocked by Sarah Palin and the Republican pitchfork/Wall Street alliance as a "community organizer" because he worked with the poor and working class, Barack Obama emerged from weeks of putting together a "blue chip/pin stripe" cabinet to show loudly and clearly that he's sticking with his roots in the neighborhood. In BuzzFlash's hometown, as you might know from our frequent recent postings this weekend, workers abruptly fired due to a questionable plant closing in Chicago, occupied their former factory: Republic Windows and Doors, which is located not too far from the ...
The Rude Pundit —
... Says the New York Times, "The workers, members of Local 1110 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, said they were owed vacation and severance pay and were not given the 60 days of notice generally required by federal law when companies make layoffs." Seems ...
Obama: Laid-Off Workers’ ‘Peaceful Occupation’ Is ‘Absolutely Right’
Wonk Room —
... ,” refusing to leave the shuttered business due to claims that they are “owed vacation and severance pay and were not given the 60 days of notice generally required by federal law when companies make layoffs.” The workers, members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, said that they were given ...
Job loss, insurance, and reproductive health
Feministing —
... Also check out the coverage of the sit-in at a Chicago factory on Sunday, where workers demanded the wages they're owed. Shark-Fu ...
Yes you can: Obama supports Chicago strikers
Majikthise —
President elect Obama supports the strikers at Chicago's Republic Window and Doors: “When it comes to the situation here in Chicago with the workers who are asking for their benefits and payments they have earned, I think they are absolutely right,” ...
The Early Word: Health Crisis
The Caucus —
... . Recovery Efforts Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Senators Dick Durbin and Roland Burris, Democrats of Illinois, will appear in Chicago today at a window and door factory that plans to use stimulus funds to reopen and rehire 250 union employees laid off after its December bankruptcy . On the Hill Meanwhile, the Congressional Democratic leadership wants members of a House-Senate conference committee to officially sign off on Mr. Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget and be ready for votes in the House Tuesday and the Senate Wednesday, The Times’ Carl Hulse ...
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Pondering the Chicago sit-in...
angryblackbitch.blogspot.com 12/8/2008 — A bitch saw a news report on the worker sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors and…well, wow! The story is getting a lot of play and this bitch thinks this worker action is an example of the reality many workers face in these fubaristic economic times. ...
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