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Republic Windows Workers Occupy Factory1

United Electrical Workers at the Republic Window and Door factory in Chicago's Goose Island neighborhood were notified on Wednesday, 03 December that they were laid off as of Friday. No warning, no...  
 
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apoyojuicios (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Good!!! finally america is waking up!!!
pulppeeler (11 months ago) Show Hide
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hmmm either you have seperate accounts to try an conceal you identity...or you cant think for youself and have to cut and paste someone elses post...either way...sad
pterryn (11 months ago) Show Hide
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Great struggle, great victory!Gongratulations.
But maybe the workers should not give up the occupation right now. If the factory is about to close, they could run it themselves as workers are doing elsewhere.
Look up on the experience of factories under workers control in Argentina, e.g. Zanon, Brukman and many others. Because bosses need workers, but workers don't need bosses!
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In our hands is held a power
greater than their hoarded gold
Greater than the might of armies
magnified a thousand-fold
We can bring to birth a new world
from the ashes of the old

'CAUSE THE UNION MAKES US STRONG!
AcaiBerryMONAVIE (11 months ago) Show Hide
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BANK OF AMERICA shall SUCK SATAN'S COCK now
parisrai (11 months ago) Show Hide
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The US government and workers are asking BOA to extend a line of credit(loan) to a failed business. Average worker due $3500 X 300 workers for $1,050,000.00 in loan to a FAILED business. Banks making bad loans is part of what got us into this mess. So, it the bank just going to write off this million dollars. Or are they going to expect the failed business owner to pay it?
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Large US banks and federal reserve need a course correction. National debt is now $34000 dollars for every American (google "national debt clock"). Congress is complaining about Chrysler needing 7 billion but they just gave the banks 100 TIMES AS MUCH (700 hundred billion). Defend the workers, F the bankers, abolish the fed reserve.
t1201971 (11 months ago) Show Hide
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And if you think some people should have fewer rights than others because of where they were born, then maybe YOU should be the one to leave the country, asshole!
t1201971 (11 months ago) Show Hide
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So wait, it's OK for the company to completely disregard federal law (the WARN act) in lying to the workers about the shutdown of the factory, and it's OK for Bank of America to piss away billions of taxpayer dollars while crying poverty when it's time to loan out a couple million to save jobs, BUT the big problem comes when some workers have to have a sit-in to defend their jobs? Hunh? You know what? FUCK RACISM!!! Workers have a property right to their jobs no matter where they were born!!
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