Republic Windows and Doors is based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in 1965 by William Spielman. The company was declared bankrupt on December 2, 2008. The property was put...
Workers take over the former Republic Windows and Doors plant celebrated by Michael Moore
Outflanked by book supermarkets and threatened with extinction, Kroch’s & Brentano’s had promised a few surprises in its struggle to remain not only alive but competitive. Yet who could have predicted that the surprise package would feature a Saudi Arabian investor, used (or recycled) books and fantasy bananas? · Those ingredients, plus whatever other surprises may still be in store for Chicago’s oldest book chain, are part of what Kroch’s president William Rickman calls the bookstore’...
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Workers with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America have occupied Serious Materials (formerly Republic Window & Door) in Chicago. The company had said it is closing operations at its Chicago plant due to "ongoing economic challenges in construction and building products, collapse in demand for window products, difficulty in obtaining favorable lease terms, high leasing and utility costs and taxes, and a range of other factors unrelated to labor costs[...]" · In response, t...
December 5 was to be the last day of work at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago. But managers soon realized that workers would not go quietly: they had voted to occupy the factory....
Towards the end of 2008, after Bank of America discontinued Republic Windows and Doors' credit line, Republic closed the Chicago factory. Following the sudden closure of the factory...
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Republic Windows and Doors workers occupy their factory for the first time in Dec. 2008, chanting "Bank of America got bailed out, we got sold out," eventually inspiring OWS and
When Mike Bush was 12, all knees and soft eyes, he won a scholarship to attend youth classes at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was the summer of 1968, hot and angry and hopeful, and while it would end with young anti-war protesters getting beaten with billy clubs by Chicago Police at the Democratic National Convention downtown, it began with Mike, a young Black aspiring artist from the Wild Hundreds by way of Memphis, slinging his bag of paper and pencils over his shoulder and stepping out into the sun. ...