YouTube: Billy Bragg - There Is Power in a Union Laid off with a mere 3 days' notice (instead of the legally required 60 days) and denied severance, health insurance, and earned vacation pay, about 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago have been peacefully occupying the Republic factory for five days. Last night their union agreed to end their sit-in under severance terms enabled by additional lines of credit from Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase. When I heard the news this morning, I said to myself, "That's what unions can...