[Homestead] Sit-in worker success

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Thu Dec 11 11:53:53 EST 2008


For those of you who said these people had no chance of getting  
anything, and who care about your credibility, you might consider a  
bit more thoughtfulness in the future:

CHICAGO - With cheers and chants that echoed President-elect Barack  
Obama's campaign of change, jubilant workers agreed to a $1.75 million  
settlement that ends their six-day occupation of a shuttered Chicago  
factory that became a symbol of the plight of labor nationwide.

Republic Windows & Doors, union leaders and Bank of America reached  
the deal Wednesday evening. Each former Republic employee will get  
eight weeks' salary, all accrued vacation pay and two months' paid  
health care, said U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who helped broker the  
deal. He said it works out to about $7,000 apiece.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28173917/


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