Monday, December 8, 2008

Angry laid-off workers occupy factory in Chicago

From INFOWARS.COM

RUPA SHENOY
Associated Press
December 7, 2008

Editor’s note: Factory occupations — in addition to sit-ins, strikes, and other mass mobilizations — were commonplace during the Great Depression.

CHICAGO (AP) — Workers who got three days’ notice their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won’t go home without assurances they’ll get severance and vacation pay they say they are owed.

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