Progressive Startup to Re-open Rust Belt Factory and Make Revolutionary Green Product

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The Republic Window factory where the workers just staged a sit in for their back pay that is:

Of course, whenever we write about the need to rebuild the rust belt for the new green economy, we get told in comments that it will never happen, the unions are too strong, the workers too expensive and the work rules too onerous. And look at Republic Windows' union, I mean, shades of Norma Rae, they had the gall to stage a sit-in, demanding their back vacation pay and severance! Who's gonna invest in that kind of environment?

Kevin Surace of Serious Materials is.

He is going to retool the plant and retrain the workers to make his ThermaProof superwindows. The regular housing market may be dead, but Surace told us at Greenbuild that he is confident about the green building market and is putting his money where his mouth is.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/startup-to-reopen-factory.php