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Joliet Herald-News: Workers Allege Retribution
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Joliet Herald-News: Workers Allege Retribution
November 12, 2009
By CINDY WOJDYLA CAIN
ELWOOD — About 70 workers were fired Nov. 5 from the Bissell Homecare warehouse after they joined a union and filed complaints about working conditions at the facility.
Fired workers picketed Wednesday afternoon in front of the home cleaning products warehouse to protest the terminations. They carried signs that read “Stop Bissell’s Dirty Work.”
Cindy Marble, of Crest Hill, worked at the warehouse for seven months. Bissell cut employees’ pay, denied sick day pay and demoted one employee when he took off a week for his sister’s funeral, she said.
“We’re just really, really tired of it,” she said as she prepared to march in front of the warehouse.
Among the marchers was the Rev. Herbert Brooks Jr., who serves on the Will County Board.
“These workers were fired without just cause,” he said. “I’m crying (inside) today because of what happened right here at Bissell in the city of Elwood.”
Protesting Bissell
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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Photos From Bissell
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Employees at the Bissell warehouse near Joliet, arrived to work at 6am today only to be informed they were all fired, but not before they trained their replacements.
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