A group of 65
workers have locked themselves inside a Goose Island plant in
Chicago, Ill. The brave move is designed to save their jobs, which
are threatened by a consolidation of Serious Energy. Union leaders
have announced that they want time to either buy the company or find
a buyer.
“We can run this
company,” stated Juan Cortez, an employee for 23 years, to WBEZ.
“We got smart people to manage the money. We can find customers. We
know how to run the company.“
The sit-in comes
more than three years after workers at Republic Windows and Doors won
severance pay through a similar six-day sit-in. The Party for
Socialism and Liberation stands in solidarity with the union because
of the human consequences of this and every labor battle. Labor
struggles are not semantic debates. The human toll of these battles
is real, and the PSL vows to work with the working many against the
few who only own.
