<![CDATA[Growing Factory Occupations Threaten to Break the Banks]]>

1.0 link 220937 <![CDATA[Growing Factory Occupations Threaten to Break the Banks]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-elk/growing-factory-occupatio_b_220937.html So far only one group has been able to force the banks to seriously change their practices - workers occupying their factories.

Last December, members of the United Electrical Workers (UE) employed by Republic Windows and Doors were initially denied severance pay when management announced the closing of their Chicago factory. Bank of America and JPMorganChase refused to continue the company's credit line and to provide severance pay, required under the workers' union contract. Adding insult to injury, the company failed...

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