[CitizensTruth] Fw: [M20all] Photos: Workers Occupy Republic Factory in Chicago

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--- On Sat, 12/6/08, DickReilly at aol.com <DickReilly at aol.com> wrote:
From: DickReilly at aol.com <DickReilly at aol.com>
Subject: [M20all] Photos: Workers Occupy Republic Factory in Chicago
To: ChiAntiWar at yahoogroups.com
Cc: CCAWRdiscussion at ccawr.org, Red1pearl at aol.com, m20all at m20coalition.net, redjerry2 at yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 10:16 PM



 




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Photos: Workers Occupy Republic Factory in 
Chicago
Christine Geovanis, Chicago Independent Media Center
 
Hundreds of people gathered Saturday afternoon at the Republic Windows 
factory on Chicago's Goose Island to lend their solidarity to Republic workers, 
who occupied the plant on Friday. The workers have vowed to continue the 
occupation until they are paid back pay and benefits, or until the plant is 
re-opened -- by the owners or by the workers themselves. 

On Tuesday, the 
owners announced that because Bank of America has cut their credit line, the 
factory would be shuttered and all workers laid off on Friday -- without 
federally and state-mandated notice, severance pay and benefits. The workers 
instead voted to take over the plant, and have vowed to occupy the factory floor 
until the company pays them the money they're owed. 

Bank of America 
received $25 billion in federal bailout money earlier this fall, despite 
pointing out at the time that they were not in financial need. Since the bailout 
began, BOA -- like other big banks across the globe -- has slashed essential 
credit lines to manufacturing and service businesses, forcing a growing number 
of small and medium-sized companies to shut down. 

The action at Republic 
Windows comes on the heels of a workers' campaign at the plant to kick out the 
company union, which had colluded with company owners and management for years. 
That effort succeeded after three years of struggle, and workers have vowed to 
take that fighting spirit of solidarity to the wall with the factory occupation, 
as well.

Republic Windows' worker occupation is one of the first actions 
of its kind in the United States since the Great Depression, when a wave of 
worker seizures of factories and manufacturing operations marked one of the most 
militant phases in U.S. labor history.


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