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What the Iconic Labor Battle at Hugo Boss Means for Our Economic Future

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CEO Pay, Hugo Boss, Service Employees International Union, Alexi Giannoulias, Labor Unions, Republic Windows and Doors, Workers United, Financial Regulatory Reform, Hartmarx, Luis Gutierrez, Cleveland, Jan Schakowsky, Oscars, Trade Policy, Income Inequality, Permira, Politics News

Not only is the whole company profitable, there is every indication that the Cleveland plant is profitable as well. So why is Hugo Boss shuttering its Cleveland operation and sending 400 American workers onto unemployment lines?

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Don't Let Wells Fargo Be a Roadblock to Economic Recovery

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wells-Fargo, Timothy Geithner, Congress, Barack Obama, Bailout, Economy, Seiu, Mike Elk, Banks, Illinois, Hartmarx, Union, Business News

100 Quad City factory employees risk losing their jobs if Wells Fargo doesn't extend tens of thousands of dollars in credit to continue day-to-day operating costs.

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Quad City Die Casting Workers Hoping To Repeat Hartmarx, Republic Windows Efforts

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Credit Crisis, Quad City Die Casting, Wells Fargo, Leah Fried, Hartmarx, Business News

Labor activists are hoping they can do for the 100 employees of the Quad City Die Casting factory in Illinois what they did for workers at Hartmarx Co...

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Obama Will Still Be Able to Get His Suits Made in Chicago

Elana Levin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Hartmarx Obama, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hartmarx, Union, Wells Fargo, Workers United, Business News

Hart Schaffner & Marx employees (famous for making suits for Obama) saved the suit maker's factories from threats of liquidation by TARP-infused creditor Wells Fargo bank.

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Growing Factory Occupations Threaten to Break the Banks

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Labor, Chicago Factory Sit-In, Strikes, Wall Street, Martin Luther King, Financial Reform, Paul Krugman, Obama, Unions, Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Business News

The successful struggle at Republic Windows has provided a model under which workers can successfully fight the banks by occupying their plants.

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Hartmarx Bankruptcy: Judge Says Deal For Obama Suitmaker Should Move Forward

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hartmarx Wells Fargo, Hartmarx Obama, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hartmarx, Emerisque, Barack Obama, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- After a weekend of negotiating, a deal to purchase the Chicago-based company that's made suits for President Barack Obama could move f...

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Wells Fargo Opposes Bid By British Bank To Buy Hartmarx

Chicago Tribune | Sandra M. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emerisque, Hartmarx Wells Fargo, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hartmarx, Chicago News

Wells Fargo & Co., the lead lender to Hartmarx Corp., said it opposes the bid from London-based Emerisque Brands to buy the Chicago-based suit maker, ...

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Hartmarx Bankruptcy: Obama Suit Maker Accepts Offer From Emerisque

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Hartmarx, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hartmarx Emerisque, Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo Hartmarx, Obama Suits, SKNL North America BV, Chicago News

CHICAGO — The company that made President Barack Obama's election night and Inauguration Day threads could stave off liquidation with a joint bi...

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Hartmarx Bankruptcy: Over 40 Congressman Ask Geithner To Help Obama's Suit Maker

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Emerisque, Hartmarx Wells Fargo, Hartmarx, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hartmarx Geithner, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Dozens of lawmakers are asking Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to pressure creditors of Hartmarx Corp. to allow the sale of the st...

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Hartmarx Bankruptcy: Workers At Obama's Suit Maker Pin Hopes On British Company

AP | TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emerisque, Pat Quinn, Hartmarx Obama, Wells Fargo, Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Hart Schaffner Marx, Labor, Hartmarx Emirisque, Chicago-Illinois, Video, Chicago News

DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) -- Workers at a suburban Chicago menswear factory cheered Wednesday when a union official told them a new offer for the company...

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Hartmarx Protest: Workers At Obama Suit Maker Vote To Stage Sit-In (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hartmarx Wells Fargo, Hartmarx Protest, Wells Fargo, Alexi Giannoulias, Hartmarx Liquidation, Barack Obama Suits, Hartmarx Rally, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hartmarx, Hartmarx Workers, Hartmarx Sit In, Video, Phil Hare, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Angry over billions in bailout money for Wells Fargo & Co., workers at a suburban Chicago factory where suits for President Barack Oba...

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Hartmarx Bankruptcy: Politicians Push To Keep Obama Suit Maker Open

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hartmarx Wells Fargo, Phil Hare, Alexi Giannoulias, Labor Movement, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hartmarx, Hart Schaffner Marx, Chicago News

Workers at a suburban Chicago suit company, which calls President Obama one of its customers but has filed for bankruptcy protection, are getting supp...

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Obama's Suit Maker Hartmarx Catches Break In Bankruptcy Court

Chi-Town Daily News | FERNANDO DIAZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hartmarx Obama, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Obama Suit Brand, Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Obama Suits, Hart Schaffner Marx, Chicago News

President Obama's suit maker scored some breathing room as a federal bankruptcy judge allowed Hart Schaffner Marx to continue making payments to emplo...

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Obama Suitmaker Hartmarx Files For Bankruptcy

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hartmarx, Hartmarx Obama, Obama Suit Designer, Hartmarx Chapter 11, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Obama Suitmaker, Barack Obama, Obama Suits, Chicago News

CHICAGO - The Chicago-based company that makes suits preferred by President Barack Obama has filed for bankruptcy. Hartmarx Corp. and its U.S. subsid...

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Obama's Suitmaker Facing Potential Bankruptcy

Chicago Sun-Times | Sandra Guy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama Suits, Hartmarx, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Obama Suits, Hart Schaffner Marx, Barack Obama, Obama Suits Brand, Chicago News

Even as Chicago men's suitmaker Hartmarx Corp. reveled in President Barack Obama wearing one of its Hart Schaffner Marx suits at his inauguration Tues...

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Obama's Suit Lifts Hartmarx Sales

Chicago Sun-Times | Sandra Guy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hartmarx Obama, Barack Obama Fashion, Barack Obama Suits, Obama Suit Brand, Obama Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Obama Suits, Hartmarx, Chicago News

Shoppers have started asking for the Obama suit -- the navy blue, worsted-wool, two-button suit that Chicago's Hartmarx tailored just for Democratic p...

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