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Showing videos filed under: Republic Windows and Doors
Year in Review: Why Can't We Fire the Boss?
December 28, 2009This year saw a lot of economic upheaval and at least in the beginning, some militant labor action that the U.S. has grown unused to. Back in May, Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis appeared on GRITtv along with labor activists from around the country to ask the all-important question: Why can't we fire the boss?Media Establishment, Mark Danner and Durban II
December 17, 2009Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean's defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination and a bill passing the house to audit the Federal Reserve. Is the Establishment closing ranks around its own?The F Word: Union Labor is Sexy Too
December 17, 2009President Obama gave a speech this week touting weatherization as a “sexy” way to save money and make the world a greener place. His audience included Senators, mayors, and labor leaders, and he cracked jokes in between serious discussion of insulation, job creation, and clean energy.The Worker Occupation of Republic Windows and Doors
May 19, 2009In December of last year Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago announced that it was shutting down. The company gave its employees only a few days notice but rather than leave the workers decided to stay. They occupied the factory and demanded accountability from management and from Bank of America, a major recipient of bailout funds, who refused to extend the company's line of credit.Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis: Why Can't We Fire the Boss?
May 19, 2009Just last week Hartmarx, a Chicago company in the business of making business suits, including the one Barack Obama wore at his inauguration, filed for bankruptcy. Wells Fargo, its biggest creditor and a recipient of $25 billion in bailout funds, wants to liquidate the company. But Hartmarx workers have said no.Hartmarx Workers Push Back
May 19, 2009Workers at the suit makers, Hart, Schaffner & Marx make fine suits including the suit that Barack Obama wore to his inauguration. But now they're facing layoffs. If Wells Fargo bank goes through with its plans to liquidate the business some 500 workers will be out of a job. And the workers are threatening to push back.Why Can't We Fire the Boss? The Hartmarx Campaign, and Andrew Ross
May 18, 2009Workers take direct action to save their jobs and rebuild the economy. Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis on worker run businesses. The Hartmarx campaign in Chicago. And Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work if You Can Get It on life and labor in precarious times.How to Stimulate Jobs and The Chicago Sit Down Strike
February 3, 2009Will spending create new jobs? Republic Windows and Doors workers on what's happened since their sit down strike in December. And a new report from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives America's infrastructure a low mark.Recovery and Resistance
February 3, 2009GRITtv speaks with Republic Windows and Doors workers and organizers who staged a sit down strike in December of last year and won concessions including severance and accrued vacation pay. Most important, they tied their protest to the financial bailout of the nation’s banks. GRITtv spoke to Melvin “Ricky” Maclin, Vice President of United Electrical Workers Local 1110, Mark Meinster an International Representative of UE, and Laura McSpedon, a Senior FieldThe Real Ponzi Scheme, Republic Windows and Doors, and Yip Harburg at the Superbowl
February 2, 2009What separates Bernie Madoff from the titans of Wall Street? For one, he doesn’t have the backing of Uncle Sam. Workers and organizers from Republic Windows and Doors on the Chicago sit down strike. And a second look at GE's superbowl ad.
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