Republic occupation
More than 75 supporters of UE Local 1174 members at Quad City Die Casting in Iowa protested Wells Fargo Bank in Chicago.
June 29, 2009 Workers from Republic Windows in Chicago came to Providence, R.I., to talk about their successful factory occupation.
February 11, 2009 The sit-in by workers at Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory galvanized solidarity actions across the U.S.
December 15, 2008 Local activists organized a spirited picket outside the Bank of America building in Baltimore to show solidarity with Republic workers in Chicago.
December 12, 2008 : Lee Sustar The success of the Chicago window factory occupation is a reminder that workers' power is based at the point of production.
December 12, 2008 : Lee Sustar A factory occupation and solidarity movement has forced Bank of America to come up with $2 million to fund two months of wages and health care for workers.
December 11, 2008 Chicago Campus Antiwar Network activists visited workers occupying the Republic Windows & Doors factory to show their solidarity.
December 10, 2008 Messages of support for the Republic workers have rolled in from labor and other activists around the world.
December 10, 2008 : Lee Sustar Workers are planning a rally at the Bank of America as negotiations fail to resolve the five-day-old occupation of a Chicago factory.
December 10, 2008 As a solidarity movement surges, politicians are promising to help workers in a Chicago factory occupation that's captured the attention of the nation.
December 9, 2008 : Lee Sustar A factory occupation in Chicago that began as a show of defiance by 250 workers has become a focus of national and international labor solidarity.
December 8, 2008 Workers are sitting in at a Chicago windows manufacturing plant that management announced--on just three day's notice--would be shut down.
December 6, 2008
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