Comments on: Bissell’s Dirty Secret: Workers Protest Bissell Warehouse in Response to Mass Firing

By: GR Press business editor gloats over Bissell CEO « Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:46:22 +0000

[...] Crawley’s column also doesn’t address the fact that Bissell recently fired 70 workers in Chicago at a warehouse because the workers were trying to organize a union and had filed some complaints against the [...]

By: IWW Union Members Act in Solidarity with Workers Fired at Bissell Warehouse « Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:44:51 +0000

[...] IWW Union Members Act in Solidarity with Workers Fired at Bissell Warehouse 2009 November 27 tags: Bissell, IWW, Kohls, Warehouse Workers for Justice by Jeff Smith (GRIID) Today, several members of the Grand Rapids Chapter of the IWW went to a Kohl’s store just off Alpine Avenue to draw attention to the 70 workers who were recently fired from a Bissell warehouse near Chicago. [...]

By: Alternatives Actions to Black Friday « Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:19:48 +0000

[...] other action you could take on Black Friday is to stand in solidarity with workers who were recently fired from a Bissell warehouse in Chicago. People in Chicago and in Grand Rapids will be going to Kohl’s stores on Black Friday to inform [...]

By: Doug Burkholder

Doug Burkholder — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:59:28 +0000

Maybe its time for the WEATHERMEN again !!

By: Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:38:05 +0000

I don’t think it is as simply as you state it. The workers that were fired are desperate for income, so if staying another day, even if you know you are being terminated, makes sense if you don’t know where your next paycheck will come from. It is also my understanding from talking with the UE, the union group involved in organizing warehouse workers in Chicago, that many of those fired are recent immigrants, who are under constant fear of deportation, so staying to train their replacements might have something to do with not wanting to be harassed.

By: Real Worker

Real Worker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:26:35 +0000

So all these workers were fired at 6 am and then asked to stay for the day to train their replacements? How many people in this world would stay at work after being fired to train new people? None that I know of, so this makes the story a little hard to believe, but obviously there are plenty of gullible people out there as the blogs show. Guess that Mr. Barnem of the famed Barnem and Baily Circus was right, that there is a sucker born every minute.

By: Bissell Protest is small, but sends a strong message « Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:26:54 +0000

[...] group of people gathered outside the Bissell offices on Walker NW in Grand Rapids to protest the company’s complicity in the firing of 70 workers from one of their warehouses outside of Chicago last [...]

By: Kyla Sisson

Kyla Sisson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:12:02 +0000

sissokyl@aquinas.edu

By: Kyla Sisson

Kyla Sisson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:11:31 +0000

I’d be interested in attending the protest if I could carpool with someone. Would anyone be interested in meeting at the Bloom? Shoot me an email.

By: stelle slootmaker

stelle slootmaker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:53:42 +0000

Yes, cousin Doug… I remember when Uncle Clayt brought us carpet sweepers “made in the U.S.A.” We all need to stand with these warehouse workers in any way that we can…. they are the new blue collar class … and the corporate class won’t be happy until they’ve cleaned up on all of us.