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Worker Sit-In Highlights the Shift in the Political Winds

by Tula Connell, Dec 8, 2008

What a difference an election makes. Here’s what President-elect Barack Obama has to say about the 250 workers in Chicago who have staged a peaceful sit-in at the factory they worked at after it closed without paying them their salaries. From Bloomberg:

“I think they’re absolutely right,” Obama said today in response to a question at a Chicago news conference. “And understand that what’s happening to them is reflective of what’s happening across this economy.”

Obama said the workers are justified in demanding their benefits and pay.

 

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