Carrying puppets and placards, several hundred union members and community activists gathered on Nov. 1 in a lot across from the rambling Brach’s candy factory on Chicago’s economically bleak west side. They were protesting the company’s decision to shut down the plant, which [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
FOLLOW US
Also by David Moberg
-
Wal-Mart Warehouse Workers Move Ahead in Fight for Justice
Warehouse workers from Wal-Mart distribution centers in metropolitan Chicago and southern California took two big...
MORE » -
Chinese Policies—and U.S. Companies—Threaten American Auto Parts Jobs
Just as the American auto industry is bouncing back from near-death—in large part thanks to the...
MORE » -
For Reasons Unclear, Union Membership Changed Little in 2011
With all-too-few exceptions over the past three decades, each annual report on union membership from the Bureau...
MORE »
SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Invest in the news you need. In These Times is a nonprofit, reader-supported magazine and website.
subscribe today for $19.95!
SAVE 53% OFFTHE NEWSSTAND PRICE!
MOST READ
- Why Conservatives Can’t Fix Poverty
- The Girl’s Guide to Staying Safe Online
- Siri and the High-Tech Gender Gap
- It’s the Stupid Republicans, Stupid
- True Crime Finance Stories
- Is the Federal Government Helping to Bust Unions?
- Anger Sowing Seeds of a New Consumer Movement
- What Can Labor Learn?
- Marching Off the Cliff
- New Eden, Old Devils

Reader Comments
There is not a single economic indicator that did not improve in the last 2 months.
Such a gloomy article, goodness. Are you nervous about what this rapidly growing economy (8+%!) will do to the ‘04 elections? You should be…....
what makes people think things will get better? Take a look at Bush’s policies..cry’s big crocodile tears and keeps right on screwing us…I can’t believe the total stupidity of the Bush supporters…If Ashcroft sent storm troopers to take them all into custody..and give them “showers” they would go with big smiles singing God Bless America….I haven’t seen this much stupidity since “All in the Family” was cancelled..at least we knew that the character that Archie Bunker was not really the way Carrol O’ Conner really felt. One American citizenship for sale here..a citizenship that goes all the way back to before Columbus ever “discovered” America…the facsists can have it ...
“One American citizenship for sale here”
Really? For how much? Would you sell it to me?
Where will you go? Why will that be preferable?
“rapidly growing economy”?! Is there a Maryland in some other country, too? Clearly we do not live in the same place.
plant closings we didnt cause
That’s right, Sarah.
If you call low-paying, dead-end jobs that do nothing to stimulate consumer spending and further the gap between rich and poor, then go ahead, Kena, be fooled.
This voodoo economics, or “piss-on economics” this administration is trying to con people into believing is working, isn’t. It’s another CRIME that son-of-a-bitch is committing against this nation and it’s people.
Sure, business is growing, shipping technical and manufacturing jobs overseas where they do nothing to benefit this nation.
The poor had a better chance before this criminal cheated his way into the White House. You remember that, Kena Dehlshi, in ‘04 when your power bill has doubled, interest rates rise, the housing market collapses, and most of your civil rights have been traded in for “security”.
actually sarah, we do do have a rapidly growing economy. You were against the tax cut, but it seems to be working.
actually sarah, we do do have a rapidly growing economy. You were against the tax cut, but it seems to be working.
register a new account »Posting Security