Barack Obama's stint as a community organizer, and his allegiance in the principles of Saul Alinsky (a strategy that values the power of protest), has elicited much speculation regarding how he would act as a President when it came to labor issues. We have insight now since we can see how he acts as President-elect A factory that makes windows and doors in Chicago is closing - a victim of a poor economy, a union work force with wages that makes the company uncompetitive, and the actions of Bank of America which withdrew credit lines to a failing business. The response of the union work force was to stage a sit-down at the factory to protest what they see as a failure of management to reach a settlement with the workers being laid off. The workers are looking for thousands of dollars to cover vacation time and lost wages.Last week, the factory notified its nearly 300 employees, of which about 80% are unionized, that it would close by Friday because Bank of America had...(Read Full Post)