<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div><strong> </strong><em></em><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Declare It Now! Wear Orange!</span><br>Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes<br>& Crimes against Humanity!<br></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64); font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div></div><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 12/6/08, DickReilly@aol.com <i><DickReilly@aol.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: DickReilly@aol.com <DickReilly@aol.com><br>Subject: [M20all] Photos: Workers Occupy Republic Factory in Chicago<br>To: ChiAntiWar@yahoogroups.com<br>Cc: CCAWRdiscussion@ccawr.org, Red1pearl@aol.com, m20all@m20coalition.net, redjerry2@yahoo.com<br>Date: Saturday,
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<div><strong><font size="4">Photos: Workers Occupy Republic Factory in
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<div>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.</div></font><br><br><br><div class="aol_ad_footer" id="abbca5fddf6d3a0cb693e36bd1812db"><font style="color: black; font-family: ARIAL; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><hr style="margin-top: 10px;">Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010">Try it now</a>.</font></div></div><pre>_______________________________________________<br>M20all mailing list<br>M20all@m20coalition.net<br>http://lists.m20coalition.net/mailman/listinfo/m20all<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>