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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I'm one of those people, though two days ago I admitted that I was wrong - 
that the workers had not wated their time.  I had no idea the entire corrupt 
Chicago machine from Obama to Blagojevich to Jesse Jackson would become 
involved.  You were right , I was wrong (as I already wrote); Now, people who 
actually pay taxes get to give those workers two months of union wages and 
benefits for doing absolutely no work.  That is the law in Illinois.  I have 
no problem with that law.  I do have a problem paying for the owner's of 
Republic Window's inability to function as a business, and picking up their 
tab.  But, taxpayers like me are picking up the tab on many failures ; today, 
tomorrow, and far into the future..........

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--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Sit-in worker success
> To: "Homestead" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:53 AM
> 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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