ohioemploymentlaw.blogspot.com - 12/17/2008
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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 factory in protest the company’s lack of notice of ...
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Windows on the Future?
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture —
... many (though by no means all) plant closings from the laws reach. At Ohio Employment Law Blog, Jon Hyman notes that Republic Windows entitlement to the exemption might hinge on facts as yet not established. Was the closing off of its access to further credit in some sense reasonably foreseeable? Hyman is skeptical: Despite (or maybe because of) the current credit crunch, a court would most likely not require Republic Windows to accurately predict Bank of Americas actions. . . . my best guess is that Republic Windows is probably on right side [sic] of the unforeseeable ...
New at City Journal: “Windows on the Future?”
Overlawyered —
... You’d have had trouble guessing from a lot of the coverage, but it’s far from clear that the window factory owners owed any severance at all under the terms of the federal WARN (plant-closings) act. And it’s abundantly clear that the actual targets of the protest, the two banks, owed nothing. ...
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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. ...
No end yet to worker sit-in
chicagobreakingnews.com 12/8/2008 — 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 ...
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.
A Union Issue
corner.nationalreview.com 12/16/2008 — From a new Gallup poll on the auto bailout:
43 percent of respondents believe the unions deserve a 'great deal' of blame for the failure of the auto bailout
The percentage assigning a 'great deal' of blame to unions is UP nine points from a ...
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