chicagobreakingnews.com - 12/8/2008
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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 held tonight at Bank of America's Loop ...
google.com - 12/8/2008
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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 ...
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The Associated Press: Obama: Workers staging sit-in ...
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The Fundamental Problem of the Credit Crunch
ArchPundit —
... Most of us think of it as being harder to get consumer credit, car loans, mortgages, etc, but the real impact is on businesses where they take bridge loans to make payroll when they aren’t cash rich even if they are in otherwise decent financial conditions. The most obvious example being Republic Window and Doors where the Governor demonstrates even a stopped clock is right some of the time: ...
Republic Window Workers: As Long as It Takes
Firedoglake —
... The 300 workers at Republic Windows and Doors have vowed to continue their occupation of the factory until they get the pay and benefits they are owed. Today they have some new new allies: ...
Shakedown
SCSUScholars —
There's some chat in the blogosphere about the story of Republic Window. (h/t: Gary.) A standoff between workers at Republic Windows & Doors and its owners and bank over the plant's closing stretched into a fifth day after talks produced no agreement despite considerable political pressure and threats of investigations. The 240 union workers staging a sit-in at the plant on Goose Island in Chicago decided to stay put at least until negotiations between their representatives and company owners and Bank of America continue Tuesday afternoon. ...
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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. ...
Bank of America makes offer to resolve worker sit-in
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reuters.com 12/10/2008 — CHICAGO (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 ...
Parties to meet over Chicago factory sit-in
usatoday.com 12/8/2008 — Workers and supporters line the factory floor of Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago on Sunday, the third day of a sit-in. About 300 workers lost their jobs.
Union sit-in illustrates working of WARN Act
ohioemploymentlaw.blogspot.com 12/17/2008 — Last week, Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago manufacturer, announced that because Bank of America had cancelled its line of credit, it would be closing immediately. Since last weekend, its employees have been staging a mass sit-in inside the ...
Worker says 'Joe the Plumber' cover-up was forced upon her
dispatchpolitics.com 12/5/2008 — The state worker who unwittingly ran an improper child-support check on the man known as Joe the Plumber told lawmakers yesterday that a deputy director later "dictated" how she was supposed to cover it up.
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