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...voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, that is due next year. The VEBAs were created to help finance health care for retired workers. "This was a huge gamble for Gettelfinger," says Shaiken. Gettelfinger also suspended the controversial jobs bank, cutting off payments to some 3,600 workers idled by plant closings at the three companies. According to the local's website, the demand for board representation was linked to these concessions...
...some 200 of his former colleagues at the shut-down Republic Windows & Doors factory in Chicago are going to sit in the cold production-line floor until they get the money they've earned. "I know the economy is bad, for everyone," he said yesterday afternoon, standing in the plant's lobby, "but all I want to do is give my kids a nice Christmas. I'm going to stay until I get all the money we deserve." The father of two - ages nine and six - is expecting a new child on Christmas...
...union's 240 members voted to stage a sit-in late Friday. Since then, they have split into three teams handling cleaning the factory plant, security, and greeting media and supporters outside the plant. Each sit-in shift roughly follows the plant's old schedule: 6 a.m.-2 p.m., 2 p.m-10 p.m., and 10 p.m.-6 a.m. One of the workers inside the plant was Lalo Munoz, 54, a 34-year employee. "We're going to stay until we get all our money. This isn't fair," he said, before going back in to work his "shift...
...project, but it is shortsighted to ignore the positive potential for job creation and the need to invest in sustainable energy. From the economic crisis to our current dependence on foreign oil, it is undoubtedly clear that the United States needs clean, domestic energy. Estimates have shown that this plant will provide three quarters of the electricity needs for Cape Cod—relief that we need now more than ever...
...past prejudices about the quality of tequila, Suros explained that poor tequila was produced beginning with the outbreak of World War II. The liquor exports of Europe declined and because tequila was made in the Americas its sales skyrocketed in the United States. But demand severely outpaced supplied. The plant used to make tequila, agave, takes an average of eight to ten years to fully mature. As a result, “mixto tequila,” watered-down tequila mixed with unknown materials, was shipped to the United States to feed the demand. This scared Americans of the taste...