CHICAGO, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A sit-in by workers unexpectedly laid off from a Chicago window factory ended Wednesday after a deal secured compensation for them, officials said.
CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Bank of America says it will extend additional credit to a Chicago replacement window company whose laid-off workers say they're owed $1.5 million in back pay.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Workers staging a sit-in at a Chicago window factory say they'll stay put at least until talks with management resume.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Laid-off workers at the Republic Windows & Doors factory in Chicago remained camped out there Saturday, refusing to leave without their pay.
CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Workers at a Chicago factory that shut down this week said Friday they will remain in the plant until police throw them out or they get their last paychecks.
BEIJING, June 8 (UPI) -- Police in China raided a brickwork factory to rescue 31 workers who were being held as virtual slaves by the company.
NEW DELHI, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest carmaker, will spend $530 million to build its first factory in India.
LONGBRIDGE, England, July 17 (UPI) -- Storied British carmaker MG Rover plans to announce the resumption of production at its Longbridge, England, factory, Sky News reported Monday.
COVENTRY, England, April 19 (UPI) -- British labor unions are denouncing plans by France's Peugeot carmaker to close a factory in the West Midlands.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Electrolux AB is reducing its production of refrigerators in a move that will leave 150 Swedish workers unemployed.
CARNO, Wales, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Laura Ashley, maker of clothing and home furnishings, will shut a British plant that employees 220 next year, the Western Mail said Tuesday.
CORBIN, Ky., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- An explosion and fire rocked a fiberglass and insulation factory Thursday, injuring 18 workers, police said. Two other workers were missing and hundreds of resi
