The New Era Windows Cooperative opens its doors (and windows) for business
By Kari Lydersen, In These Times
May 9, 2013
The workers know launching and running a company won’t be easy, but given their deep knowledge of the industry and their personal investment in the project, they are confident they can do it.
Today, in a revamped Campbell’s Soup building in an industrial and residential section of southwest Chicago, the New Era Windows Cooperative will celebrate the grand opening of its new factory.
Becoming a worker-owned cooperative is the latest chapter in the saga of the workers of Republic Windows and Doors, who gained the nation’s attention by occupying their factory—twice—and became a symbol of resistance in the face of corporate corruption and the economic crisis. [...]
Read the full article:
http://inthesetimes.com/article/14972/at_last_occupiers_turned_owners_celebrate_factory_opening/
For more on Republic Windows:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/wilson260109.html
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