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the phantom stranger
2008-12-06, 17:15
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081206/ap_on_re_us/workers_takeover

Short article but pretty neat. Hope they get what they're fighting for.

Hare_Geist
2008-12-06, 19:47
That is neat. Hopefully other people in America will follow suit, what with all the job cuts, and we will see a revival, however minor, of anarcho-syndicalism to counter the prevalent free market support.

the phantom stranger
2008-12-11, 16:29
Update: they won. The workers came to an agreement and voted to end the sit-in strike.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081211/ap_on_re_us/workers_takeover