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apnews.myway.com - 12/8/2008
My Way News - Obama: Workers staging sit-in 'absolutely right'
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My Way News - Obama: Workers staging sit-in 'absolutely right'
google.com - 12/8/2008
The Associated Press: Obama: Workers staging sit-in 'absolutely right'
— google.com — Obama: Workers staging sit-in 'absolutely right' By RUPA SHENOY 7 hours ago CHICAGO (AP) President-elect Barack Obama... is weighing in on behalf of workers staging a sit-in on the factory floor of their former Chicago employer to protest abruptly ... (more) The Associated Press: Obama: Workers staging sit-in ...

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No end yet to worker sit-in
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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Chicago workers end window plant sit-in
cnn.com - 12/11/2008
Chicago workers end window plant sit-in
— cnn.com — Protesters demonstrate in support of the window-factory workers in Chicago on Wednesday.... (more) Chicago workers end window plant sit-in
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Think Progress:  ThinkFast: December 8, 2008

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ThinkFast: December 8, 2008
Think Progress — President-elect Barack Obama voiced his support for workers engaged in a sit-in protest at a recently closed Chicago factory. “The workers who are asking for the benefits and payments that they have earned, I think they’re absolutely right and understand that what’s happening to them is reflective of what’s happening across this economy,” Obama said. Three top executives in the Pentagon inspector general’s office received a hefty bonus of about $30,000 — 20 percent of their annual basic pay — and a ...

The Right to Credit
Patterico's Pontifications — ... Barack Obama has already weighed in in support of the workers. They have my sympathy, especially if they are owed money for lost wages, but I’d like to hear both sides of this story before I choose sides. ...

Welcome to the Punk Presidency
Pajamas Media — ... members to hear Hillary, behind closed doors, having animated — if one-sided — conversations with Eleanor’s ghost.” Decades earlier, Jackie Kennedy said, “I used to sit in the Lincoln Room and I could really feel his strength.” I thought that this misstep might be a “thrill of victory” mistake made in the flush of impending power. But a month later, Obama journeyed into dangerous territory, telling the world that workers who had occupied the Republic Window plant in Chicago were “ absolutely right .” At the time, ...

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nytimes.com 12/9/2008 — Meetings ended Monday night without bringing about an end to an increasingly tense occupation of the plant. >
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