Worker occupation leads to worker cooperative in Chicago

New Era Windows Cooperative (Photo credit: peoplesworld)

Podcast Episode 29 — A New Era
Recorded 07.13.2013: Peg Strobel interviews Armando Robles and Ricky Maclin from the New Era Windows Cooperative, a new worker-owned enterprise formed out of the famous Republic Windows plant occupation and subsequent Serious Energy bankruptcy. Robles and Maclin talk about how the coop was formed with the assistance of The Working World and their union, United Electrical Workers, and the transformation this has made in their lives. (35:25)
Download: MP3 (32 MB) or OGG VORBIS (41 MB).

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