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Republic Windows Employees Get Settlement Checks

CBS | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago

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William Brandt Jr., president and CEO of Development Specialists Inc., hands out settlement checks to the more than 250 Republic Windows and Doors emp...

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Chicago Protest Workers Celebrate Victory

Progress Illinois | Josh Kalven | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago

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On Monday night, labor leaders, organizers, and workers from the closed plant gathered on Chicago's West Side to celebrate the success of the Republic...

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Republic Workers Calmed Racial Tensions Before Sit-In

Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago

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A sit-in by laid-off employees of a Chicago window company this month sparked international attention. Republic Windows and Doors had closed with only...

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Republic Windows And Doors Files For Bankruptcy

AP | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago

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The Chicago factory where workers staged a sit-in after they were abruptly laid off has filed for bankruptcy. Republic Windows & Doors Inc. chief exe...

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What the Republic Victory Means

Curtis Black | Posted 01.15.2009 | Chicago

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Curtis Black

The victory of the Republic Windows and Doors workers demonstrates the value of militant action by labor in addressing the economic crisis.

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Republic Workers and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

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Sarah van Gelder

The factory sit-in could launch an economic human rights movement that takes off where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. left off when he was assassinated supporting striking sanitation workers.

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Republic Workers Continue Protest As New Creditor Emerges

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 01.10.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Workers have approved a $1.75 million agreement, ending a sit-in that lasted six days at a Chicago window and door factory. U.S. Rep....

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The Immigrant Story That Wasn't: Laid Off Republic Windows Employees Just Regular Working Stiffs

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 01.09.2009 | Chicago

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Esther J. Cepeda

I am absolutely stunned that the peaceful sit in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory and warehouse has not been stuck in the ghetto of "immigrant story."

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Laid Off Workers Refuse To Leave Chicago Factory

AP | RUPA SHENOY | Posted 01.06.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Workers who got three days' notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won't go home wit...

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Laid Off Workers Stage Sit-In At Shuttered Plant

CBS 2 | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago

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Workers have staged a sit-in at the now-shuttered Republic Windows and Doors plant on Goose Island, angry that Bank of America has cut the company off...

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