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Angry laid-off workers occupy factory in Chicago
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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About 200 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and Doors plant in shifts Saturday while union leaders outside criticized a Wall Street bailout they say is leaving laborers behind.
Leah Fried, an organizer with the United Electrical Workers, said the Chicago-based vinyl window manufacturer failed to give 60 days’ notice required by law before shutting down.
During the peaceful takeover, workers have been shoveling snow and cleaning the building, Fried said.
“We’re doing something we haven’t since the 1930s, so we’re trying to make it work,” Fried said.
Protest organizers said the company can’t pay employees because its creditor, Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America, won’t let them. Crain’s Chicago Business reported that Republic Windows’ monthly sales had fallen to $2.9 million from $4 million during the past month. In a memo to the union, obtained by the business journal, Republic CEO Rich Gillman said the company had “no choice but to shut our doors.”
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December 7th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Just wait until GM closes its doors…
December 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Highly doubt GM will close its doors, they will get the money…The Congress knows that this would be armageddon.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
a revolution is the only thing that is gonna fix this. The days of lynch mobs should come back
December 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire.
Chris Reply:
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Couldn’t agree more
December 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
We here in Erie, U.E. Local 506, support our brothers and sisters in Chicago.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
the mob is going to lynch the window company? the unions blame the bank but protest sit in at the work site. how is this going to change the bank? we dont want banks giving money to failing companies, right. No ones building new houses, so the market is contracting, ergo fewer windows are needed. If 50% of my gross profits fell, and my product line was limited, I’d have to reduce my number of workers. If the company has large line of credit it wont make payroll. If youve never run a biz with several workers you might not understand the pressure of overhed and compliance (likely worse with union issuse) which is shockingly around 50% for small biz.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hey, #7, good reasoning, except…
all the workers are asking for is for is OWED to them. Of course a business person can close if losing. The problem is that most of the time these business people, who received corporate welfare for big and small business in ‘exchange’ for protections for the workers, take the money and leave the workers stranded.
It’s all about money. Heartless business people. It’s all about money and taking yours.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Same pictures like in YUGOSLAVIA BEFORE CIVIL WAR !
December 7th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
i would like to compare 2008 to 1808:
in 1808 it took an army to revolt and defeat tyranny.
in 2008 it only takes one man(or a few). why? because of technology. one man with a bow and arrow couldn’t do s--- in 1808. but now in 2008 one man(or a few) with GPS, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, airplanes, and a biological weapon(virus) can come close to shutting down an entire country.
and if chaos ever begins don’t assist in restoring order until all the bankers, politicians and corporate CEO’s are dead.
DEATH TO THE NWO and peace to all who live thru the chaos
December 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
yeah I’m with Saber rAttler…
Let’s Get some!!
December 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
The banksters made sure they did not go out of business.
Why not stick to the law and pay these people??
Just because you cannot afford to does not mean the debt is gone.
Otherwise, the banksters would have to give us our home loans when we default on them.
They have a legal obligation as a business and their are no other clauses that say, unless you cannot afford to.
I wish the workers best of luck and commend them on their peaceful protests.
What we are seeing happen to them is going to happen to you if you do not hold the corporations accountable for their mistakes.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
saber rattler, FYI you can be tracked through your GPS system.
you better learn to use a compass and map.
As for the article it’s good to see people protesting, although the weather in Chicago is Hell right now, all the bankers have to do is turn off the heat, the people will be gone in a day or so.
13*
December 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I thought John Todd said the illuminati owns about 90%+ of everything in the economy. So that would make GM and other car makers their property. Which means this bailout is going to happen.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Do what I do now with employers , banks , car dealers , ect . When they start whining about how bad the
economy is , I tell them I DON’T CARE ! In the last 20 years I have had to retrain and relocated 6 times . I never quit or was fired from a job but , every time it was cut and dry , tough luck … adios . Now, all their schemes and crooked business practices are coming to roost , and they want our understanding and sympathy . KISS MY HARDWORKING AMERICAN ASS !!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the real world . Take care of your
neighbor , friends and family . If you buy a vehicle make them crawl (they did ) tell your employer you are hard working , honest , drug free and make them pay you for it ! I did . Don’t buy the ” we care about you bull ” . They will drop you like a hot rock when it’s you or them .
December 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I’m glad to see that organized labor is finally drawing a line in the sand and is fighting for our rights. In the coming months and years we are going to see more of these types of labor actions such as were commonplace in the 1920’s and 1930’s. We should all support the workers at Republic in their efforts and our country’s unions in general, since they are one of the only institutions that still speaks for the working class against the tyranny and exploitation of the establishment in this country.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
This is what happens to people who trust in smaller groups or Corporations and Gov’t, to guaranttee their finacial ability to provide for themselves.
Enjoying your self-imposed vaccum cleaner of Death.
Now do you get it?
Now do you understand why our founders said only Silver/Gold, is a viable money source.
Not the Brennton-woods fiat system?
LOOK? How many Fiat federal reserve notes(Not true Constitutional US Dollars, but a money system owned by foreigners), it takes to buy an Ounce of silver?
What our US Dollar is suppose to be CONSTITUIONALLY based on, BY LAW written in the US Constitution!
Can you now see the debasement of your wealth?
CAN YOU?
THINK Damn it!
If our dollar was based on an Ounce of silver?
And it now takes, what? $12 in fed notes to buy an oz. of silver?
If those dollars were based on silver again? How much would you be making an hour?
Do you yet see the theft?
Example: If you currently make $10 hr.? If our money was LEGAL(Based on and Ounce of silver)? You’d actually be making $120 and hour!
DO YOU SEE NOW?
DO YOU SEE the LIE?
December 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
DO YOU SEE >>>>>>>>>>>>> NOW?
December 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Oh the poor workers. They couldn’t give a s--- when innocent Iraqi people were being murdered by troops because they were protecting their families from an invasion. These people couldn’t give a s--- when traitors decended on New Orleans killed people, stole food and guns. These people wouldn’t listen to the warnings we gave them for the last 7 years. They wouldn’t listen to Ron Paul and others. I’ll bet half those people still have their bush or mccain or obama stickers on their cars.
And now they cry like little children because their retirements are being stolen and their jobs given away. Now they want someone to give a s--- about them. Those poor people. This is what you get when you’re a s--- brain worthless piece of garbage. They get screwed but they still wave their flag and they still don’t get it because they are dumb trash.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
#8
Point 1: IF the are “owed” , it would be 60 days of work.
But, if the owner has a line of credit to make payroll, which the bank wont extend, and the company is running in debt (ie. winter builder/suppliers dont see end of fiscal year surge but in summer building,overhead, ect. ) where is the money going to come from? its not there?
#2 Explain corperate welfare? It seems like alot of money 4 mil. If the above picture represents all the workers at the company, thats not a lotof people to pay. total of 1.5 million in worker wages(assume 15 workers, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, at $50 an hour(look at first google union labuor rates search total package averages)) plus insurance (liability, work comp, non union workers(assistant, reception, ect.), plus shipping, plus marketing, plus materials plus building lease, plus safety goverment compliance, ect. Alot of profit is placed back in growth(depends)
After net biz profits, biz taxes, personal taxes (for the boss which is around 50%) I bet he aint taking home that much. Yes its more than the worker but he works longer hours and has more responsibility.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
They can track you with your cell phone now.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
#8 when companies go under they cut and run with as much as they can get away with. my brother lost his job at a paper mill 5yrs ago and had worked there for 20 yrs. he didn’t get all that was owed but he got something. things are far worse now then 5 yrs ago and i feel bad for these people being i don’t think they’ll get anything close to whats owed if anything at all.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
If you want to see Alan Watt’s prediction put to video…give this a look
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UQIAwjcc5GY
December 7th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
And Americans wonder why big business is leaving America?
Because you are stupid…….. You work for peanuts as they rape you. And aid the foreigner bankers, who are imposing tyrrany on our country by going along to get along.
They got you thinking if I only worked harder, and more over-time I’ll get somewhere!
But You only get where someone in the know wants you too. Because they ALLOW it.
It’s because you hold to their beliefs some how, and you go along with the tyrrany!
If you were making $120 an Hr. Would you need a Credit card? Would you need a Insurance policy if you could AFFORd to save to buy everything for yourselves?
Pay your own way? depend on Yourself not someone else?
Not depending on a system that uses you and enslaves you in the name of necessity?
FOOLS!
They Lie to Us, and You keep BUYING IT!
Now you want those who have PUT us where we are at. To help us out of it?
Are YOU INSANE?
December 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Americans are so dumb. “Let’s Strike!!” While there are many factors involved in the demise of our economy, we, the people account for about 60% of it. Next time your at a red light, count 10 cars. Notice the make of the 10. Probably 6 of the 10 will be imports. You see, as long as you give an American a paycheck on Friday and a 6 pack of beer, they have no loyalty to their own countrymen. Take any moron that has bought windows recently on this website. If the Republic windows, “Made in USA”, were let’s just say $30 bucks more a window over the cheaper one’s make in China, I’ll bet all you idiots would pick the cheaper one’s.
Not even realizing your slitting your own throat, you purchase with your pocketbook versus your loyalty to your own country. Union’s!!! What a friggin joke. Union workers don’t even buy Union goods, so give me a break you hypocrites. I have a “UNION” neighbor that has 2 import vehicles in his driveway, and sits there and bitches about money. That’s because of the worship of cash. It takes idiots like me, to buy American vehicles.
We should take a look in the parking lot at Republic Windows, and see how many “UNION” workers buy “UNION” cars.
Let’s see how smart people are on this site. Go to Home Depot and buy some washers. You know, the round doughnut shaped pieces of sheet metal. “MADE in CHINA” Have any of you idiots figured out that all you have to do is go and buy a metal stamping machine, and some stock sheet metal, stamp out different size doughnuts and whoooolaaaaa…..Washers MADE IN USA. Stop looking for everyone’s nipple to suck off of and start your own company if your going to bitch and moan. But no, you’ll goto WalMart, or Home Depot, buy absolute s--- made over seas, then hop in your foreign piece of s--- car and go home. Get up off your dead ass and do something about it.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
This is just the beginning.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
No.25, I have only had American cars, but what does it matter really when most parts for US cars are made overseas and some foreign cars are assembled in US? Don’t blame the people!
If you are struggling to make ends meet why would you buy a low-grade GM car? Only the high-end models won’t die soon.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
If a union can’t protect you against the commie IRS income taxes and inflation it’s a worthless institution anyway. Duh.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
NO 27. Ok, let’s see, Honda Accord…….Chevy Malibu. You be the judge.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
No. 29. No…. The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. There is nothing wrong with someone making a profit….. Do you make a profit off anything that you sell……Let’s say EBAY or a garage sale.
It’s real simple. The window company goes out of business and stops buying vinal from it’s supplier. It also stops buying glass from the glass provider. It also stops buying cardboard from the carboard manufacturer which supplies them with shipping materials.
Same with the auto industry. The fold, and stop buying parts from the local tool and dye shops. They stop buying pads from the brake company, brake fluid from the brake fluid company. Wiper blades from the wiper blade company. Tires from the tire company.
And guess what, they are all american companies. My friend sells insurance, and said thay he has been losing business. He also drives 2 toyotas. Well no s---. American people lose jobs, and they stop buying his insurance. Let’s see…..shoe for kids and food for kids, or Allstate insurance…
Now when he loses all his client base, and wonders why. But in the morining, he’ll hop in is toyota, go to the office with half a clent base.
C’mon folks….Am I the only one with at least a half a brain cell here. What about my washer example…
Let’s see how smart people are on this site. Go to Home Depot and buy some washers. You know, the round doughnut shaped pieces of sheet metal. “MADE in CHINA” Have any of you idiots figured out that all you have to do is go and buy a metal stamping machine, and some stock sheet metal, stamp out different size doughnuts and whoooolaaaaa…..Washers MADE IN USA. Stop looking for everyone’s nipple to suck off of and start your own company if your going to bitch and moan. But no, you’ll goto WalMart, or Home Depot, buy absolute s--- made over seas, then hop in your foreign piece of s--- car and go home. Get up off your dead ass and do something about it.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
free trade doesn’t work, fair trade does, americans should be be producing their own products, not having some other country make it for them, the only problem is your government will not force it, new world order, new world market is bull.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Bank of America is one of the main globalist banks and those bastards can burn in hell. BOA operates like there are no laws and they need to be brought to account for their illegal actions.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
~Yea if they would have told them ahead of time there would have been hell to pay. Its no accident on short notice, buckle up everyone lots more job loss’s to come around the world. =/
NEW VIDEO~Visionary’s of the New World Order…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ONRuARwXKg
December 7th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
MYTHIC SHADOW thanx for the videos always good to see i’m not the only one who believes these things are happening.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
This is just made for a start of a police state, BA is s---! And these people deserve there money,
I was not around for the FORD and there 1st sit down strike in MI, But this is the embers of the left over’s,
This is a beginning of what’s to come, and the banks are still having a party, Rome is burning and the people can’t see what’s going on,
God damn will someone tell the people the house is on fire,
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I do my part; dose any one care to join me???? or are you going to sit back and keep taking this s---, before the clock runs out!!!!!!!!
We got a lot thing we can do!! Please, let’s take our Constitution back,
Repeal the Patriot 1& 2
December 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I agree with #25, most Amerikans are huge selfish idiots that only care about themselves.
I buy American whenever I can, this includes ALL of the cars I have ever owned. I buy gas from Valero, barley grown in the US etc.
December 7th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Whatever Americans didn’t see what was and is coming is because they chose not to, although deep down inside I think they really knew. If you ain’t prepared for what is to come,it’s you own fault. The masses are dumbasses.
December 7th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
oh yeh most of the workers were illegal aliens! I’m gonna kill whitey in the suburbs!
December 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
LEAVE THE 3RD DIMENSION AND ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!
IMMORTALITY – NO MORE DEATH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XosfUMks84E
December 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
nwo=own
December 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAT WAS HIDDEN NOW EXPOSED!
NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE TEARS, NO MORE DEATH!
IMMORTALITY – NO MORE DEATH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XosfUMks84E
December 7th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Those people are dieing breed. Standing up for what’s right? In this country, were like f---ing dodo birds.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Where has organize labor been for the past 8 years?
December 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
#40 Anthony, I watched your video, and I see you nothing about the Kingom of God. If you don’t know the Bible, you know nothing about the Kingom of God. The Kingdom of God is the Lord Jesus Christ.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
If they think striking will help them, they need to think again. The company will just move over seas like other companies.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Im sick of all stupid bible thumpers!f--- JESUS!He has nothing to do with politics and he’s not coming to save anyone!
December 7th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Its great to see that some Americans can fight for their rights.
Now to get the rest of the zombies off their duffs…
December 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
YOU PEOPLE BETTER WISE VERY QUICKLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PASSING OUT BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND WHEN ITS ALL DONE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THESE GREEDY GODDAM COMPANIES THAT DONT DESRVE IT. THESE COMPANIES LET YOU GO FOR NO REASON AND ON A DROP OF A DIME TO MAXIMIIZE PROFFITS, THESE MOTHER f---ERS WANT OUR MONEY TO BAIL THEM OUT AFTER THEY SCREW EVERY WORKER AND THEY WANT US TO BAIL THEM OUT, THAT BALD HEAD PIECE OF s--- PAULSON DOES A BAIT AND SWITCH AND TELLS YOU TO YOUR FACE A FLAT OUT f--- YOU TO THE HOMEOWNERS AND GIVE IT TO THERE GREEDY FAT PIGS. THEY ARE LAUGHING AT US, THOSE FAT f---S IN CONGRESS ARE DOING NOTHIN AND WHEN ALL IS DONE IT IS TOO LATE. IF I LOSE MY HOUSE BECAUSE I WIND UP LOSING MY JOB AND THERE IS NO WORK AND IF MY CREDIT GETS SCREWED UP BECAUSE OF IT, THE BANK BETTER NOT THINK ABOUT TRYING TO TAKE MY HOME. THEY WANT HELP BUT THEY DONT WANT TO HELP US? i WILL DO WHAT IT TAKES TO PROTECT MY PROPERY AND IF IT TAKES ME DIEING IN THE PROCESS, SO IT SHALL BE WRITTEN SO IT SHALL BE DONE. i WILL PROTECT MY PROPERTY AND I WILL USE DEADLY FORCE AGAINST ANYONE AND I MEAN ANYONE WHO TRIES TO TAKE MY s---.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
watch the illuminati pyramid in the pictures of the artical
December 7th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Less flouride and an honest financial system and maybe they would open a factory
December 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
The chicago voters brought this scumbag to the highest ofice in the land, they deserve what they get and I don’t feel one ounce of pain for them. let the slobs seek the devil FARAKHAN out to help them. He received much illicit dirty money from the state and feds. Why aren’t these poor laid off workers asking the imam where the money is.
HA ha ha hah ha
You voted for the scam flim flam man and now you are going to get what is due you!!!!!!!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Will somebody please find that stupid ring and throw it in the volcano already?!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
#47 Bill, you might be tired of the name of Jesus, but but one day you will confess with your mouth He is Lord, as you bow your knees in worship. But then it will be too late for you, so why don’t you confess him now as your Lord. Quit rejecting truth.
December 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
hey Lookout!
Well said!
December 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
guns for gift card exchange in L.A.,,,,100 dollar gift card for any gun,,,appprox, 600 guns turned in,, ohh assault rifles get ya double gift card values..
December 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Did the workers think the fake bailouts are for them? The bailout is for the sycophant class so that they will not divulge what they know. The Elite need no bailout and never have. Don’t you people understand that yet!!! What do you require to understand the REALLY RICH hate your guts and consider you a bother, what in HELL does it take. Maybe HELL itself! If so just wait a while.
L E V I A T H A N
December 7th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Mr. Rind,
Senator Obama is still only the president elect. How in your right mind can you blame him for this financial crisis. I guess the blame game has already begun. It will be Mr. Obama’s task to try and fix the multitude of problems that 8 years of Republican reign has brought us. Ecspecially the first four years with a Republican majority. Keep your racism to yourself, this is not a black/white issue……W is a white man…..I don’t think a black man could do a better job of f---ing things up.
December 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Jon, GOOD FO YOU AND POWER TO YOU.
L E V I A T H A N
December 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Jon, GOOD FOR YOU AND POWER TO YOU.
L E V I A T H A N
December 7th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
hahaha i just watched Return Of The King…
December 7th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Oohhhh ye of little faith…
Obama already has a plan to save these people. He is a man of the poeple and will not allow such a thing to happen. Obama will dip into his own pocket to allow this tragedy not to happen to people in his area.
This story has to be an “untruth” because Obama would never allow this to happen…
Obama will not allow it..
Obama is a savious..
Obama is a messiah
Obama…. Obama … Obama
Prasie be to Obamaallah
December 7th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Then go kiss Obahma’s ass. Fool!
December 7th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
This fact one fact seems to not be in the thought process off all of you High thinkers here.
THESE ARE NOT THEIR JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE THE COMPANIES JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE UNIONS AND THEIR CROOKS AT THE TOP HAVE MADE ALL OF THE CASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEEN ANY POOR UNION PRESIDENTS LATELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sheeple you make me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Ever saw a working man give a rich man a job?
Praise be to Obamallah !!!!!!
He is our prophet from Illinois and he will save these people from total unemployment…..
Praise be to WAshington …
December 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
are you commenters for real?
December 7th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I ask myself that all the time #68.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
LOL this reminds me of when the dot coms closed on us… we were given 1 hrs notice to get our stuff out of our cubicles and go. These union whiners need to learn to live in realilty.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:14 am
#58 – wtf. that must be some feminist program.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:42 am
precisely #71,,,wish it were but it was a story on FAUX news,,,,as follows-
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463172,00.html
December 8th, 2008 at 1:17 am
At least these people are TRYING to take control of their lives, their situations, their world. While you whine on about how they are so stupid for being union, remember unions made this country great. Most of you are just jealous you don’t have the GUTs to be union, or create a union, because it takes guts to know you are fighting for yourself. Go drink some kool-aid. You people make me sick.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Could this be the beginning of the fight back by the common man against tyranny ?
I hope so — these incidents no matter how small need as much publicity as often as possible as they will lead to a snowball effect and them good people the cards will be on the table , the bastards will impose martial law and their plans finally exposed.
When this happens more people will join our cause in uniting to do away with the bastard illuminate, wall street thieves, and anyone else who would try to return serfdom by debt slavery back to this world.
Who will be against the wall first when the revolution comes ?
I suggest that those that try to impose the will of the facist bastard illuminate such as crooked and traitorous cops should be first.
December 8th, 2008 at 5:55 am
I wish my neuterd white friends had so many balls
December 8th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Bravo to these workers. Workers of the world unite ! The common man & woman need to find their voice and rise up just as these people have done. If every community were to do this, imagine the impact it would have. The word of success of a few will spread to millions and give them the courage to do the same.
THAT is the way to fight the powers that be. There is strength in numbers. That’s the one area that we have the definite advantage. It’s time we used it !
December 8th, 2008 at 7:46 am
The unions here are in the streets as well——————solutions at work in the streets moltov cocktail…………….
December 8th, 2008 at 8:38 am
It’s too bad that the unions force themselves into work when there is none,they only seem to strike when there is work…
Unions and the shakedown artists that use them are the biggest reason that our auto industry has failed.
Even if every dollar were taken from the top 10% of executives it still wouldn’t put a dent in the red ink that they have,it is all union benefits and legacy costs that are killing them.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:18 am
The unions have been a disaster in general… in my opinion.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Yep, like these folks, everyone of us need to find our voice….
December 8th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I worked union for several years during the 60s and
got my eyes opened to their mistakes.
But what has killed EVERY industry in the U.S.,
(except possibly coffin manufacturers) is going
offshore.
AND complying with ridiculous gov’t regulations on
how they are allowed to build their product.
People just can’t understand if you move a factory
to another country with the idea of cheap labor,
you end up losing your customer base because
peons making 50 cents per hour cannot afford
to pay $25K for an American car.
The unions had their place back in the bad old days
of the FIRST Robber Barons, (as opposed to the
robber barons of our time) when they kept men
in the mines 12+ hours per day and paid them in
scrip.
But like the goof-*ss housing dreamland, there is
a limit to your trip on the gravy-train. Face it, the
gold rush is over and the bum’s rush is on.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Huck. I agree with you 100% percent…..Insist on buying “MADE IN THE U.S.A.”
Buying import product does not help poor people in foreign nation. It only help the Elite rich to accomplish the evil and un-liberty new world order goal.
People of god/good will always need protection from the evil side of life. FREEDOM is for DUMB people who believe they are FREE. what you are seeking is LIBERTY with-in the U.S. constitution.
money is worthless…and you will find this out, if you embrace a working SKILL. Money can be call the # of the beast. the more you have the greater the beast.
But is money really bad?
Money only make a good person better, and a bad person worst.
Money is not the root of all evil, people are the root of evil. this is way they die. evil can not rule for he will be come recycle due the formation of good. evil is energy, the power can not be destroy it is transfer into another form.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am
These people are only readying themselves for a change of address…”FEMA Facility 101″
Try before you die…so to speak!!!
December 8th, 2008 at 10:22 am
those poor workers….Is this America’s first 21st century flophouse? Thanks Bush
December 8th, 2008 at 10:38 am
When you cut the top off of a pyramid, you only get another pyramid.
When we’re dead, they’ll eat each other.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
not the preaching again. you really come across as the typical know it all christian that people flee from when they see you. if your not bringing people to christ bringing offense to others because you refuse to compromise your beliefs but expect others too then your not doing gods work much less the works of jesus. sorry, but i believe in his message but i don’t worship him. and i refuse to act as though i have all the answers because i don’t.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
People who say that unions no longer need to exist need to remind themselves of where we came from and just how easy it would be to regress back to it. Watch the movie The Grapes of Wrath for starters. Are unions perfect? Of course not. But they haven’t gone away because large, multi-national and DISLOYAL corporations refuse to be fair in their business practices. Many CEOs would sell their own grandchildren to meet profit margins.
Read this article and understand that the lobbying robber barons still exist and they’re enabled by the corrupt politicians. Their stated plan is quite clear.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/28/111729/353
“You are a shining light for what is happening in the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we’re trying to do in America in leading the world in the free-market system.”
December 8th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Cry me a river 89.
These guys are using badit tactics to hold up Bank of America. The real bad guy is their former company. Their company screwed them not Bank of America. The bank owes a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and their employes. Extending money lines to a company with too many employees and not enough profit is foolish.
Unions and work rules are what is driving manufacturing jobs overseas.
Its funny the Japanese companys can make cars in the US without the unions and make a profit on them. Their workers make decent money for their skill levels. You work hard and learn new skills and you make more money and have more options in a downturn.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Unions……….The Oky Swamp Wild Pig parable in process.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Unions are a double edged sword with the union,and the company that has the unionized workers there both just as bad. With the economy being at its current level of recession the union should realize that there strong arm tactics won’t work anymore. The Union is failing the Joe American workers by not adapting to the times. Say big company is losing profit but big union won’t budge on adapting the wages to current economic situations. So big company starts looking overseas during the remaining contract terms and when its time to renew the contact. Guess what boys and girls we decided to close the factory down and move overseas our contract is up and we found cheap labor. See you all later Union toys the workers will see the Union as a bad idea in the end when the Union is supposed to be working for them.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I am member of a union. Union of the fifty states. Lot of good that does now. My fellow union members do nothing while the select/elect few rob and loot and pillage us. Thanks a lot union brothers. But no, your only interested is in you. Boo Hoo. Your little special union. Selfish, dont you think. Labor was left behind decades ago, when GATT, NAFTA, CAFTA was passed the unions weren’t smart enough or to selfish and self centered to worry about anyone but themselves and didnt voice their collective objection to it. In Detroit its bloody mayhem. The average worker in manufacturing related fields suffered the down line effects of the exportation of jobs. I dont support and dont work for unions because I view them, the Union officials as nothing more than politicians and I like politicians like I like pedophiles. D**d. I bet the head mucky mucks are still getting paid. I say the workers should go in seize the equipment and auction it off. Good crew of riggers could empty the building to an unknown location of all high dollar equipment in hours if coordinated well. Hold it for ransom. Create a fund and use the funds to sue the company.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Not one of these workers will contact Alex Jones for a radio spot?
Alex Jones can’t use his “leadership” skills to rally these workers?
I have heard many comments about the “greatness” of Alex Jones by many one here.. I just have seen any evidence of such a trait.
Anyone can stand around with a bullhorn at some “Bilderberg” meeting.. but those people don’t care and nothing gets accomplished overall.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Now anyone who has a BANK OF AMERICA ACCOUNT, BOYCOTT!!
Close them,
And spread the word,
I promise you if you look careful at the Unions!! They did have there time, And there were sweat shops all over this country, Henry Ford hated these unions, and was a Nazi sympathizer,
And the 1st sit down strike was in Flint MI,
The Unions of today are just corrupt, and the puppets of the old school Mafia,
This I know to well,
These are all outside and inside constructions Unions,
But The # One thing they have is School 4-5 year Apprenticeship,
And to be a Journeymen, Says it all! Its a French word! You’ll have to look up in Webster’s
# 2 Is the close bond you will have,
The “UA, United Association, Plumbers Pipefitters, Steamfitters and Sprinkler fitters, USA & CN
The ” IBEW” International brotherhood Electrical Workers, And CWA Communication Workers of American
CWA MA Bell
And The Iron Workers, Boilermakers, Labor Unions,
But the most of membership they know what’s going on, whether it’s on the Local or INT, Level
The UAW holy s--- Bail Out? What they are building Plants right now, RUSSIA, Brazil, China, & Mexico
where do you think the money is going to go
The Pension Plans , GOD DAMN 30% Gone
I’ll shut up
Thank You
BOYCOTT
Bank America
December 9th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
It’s gonna take more than a loan to keep a business going if there’s no demand for its product. How many saddle makers are in your phone book?
December 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
If B of A caves and loans this failing outfit a nickel, I’m withdrawing all my funds and putting them in government bonds. They don’t pay anything but a lot of smart money is going there these days.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Towns and cities across the country have adopted innovative programs that reward citizens for recycling. In Everett, Mass., residents have been offered financial rewards for recycling, and the average household now recycles 10 times more
December 10th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
How about looking at the real problem!! it’s called free trade..why should a company be protected to allow jobs to go overseas and take tax cuts here. and then force remaining workers to compete against clowns that will work for a bowl of rice or a piece of bread..it does’nt work!!