Biden, Durbin: 'Serious' jobs in Chicago

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Biden, Durbin: 'Serious' jobs in Chicago
Posted March 1, 2009 5:40 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva


President Barack Obama maintains that his $787-billion economic stimulus will create or save 3.5 million jobs.

They've found 250 in Chicago. "Serious'' jobs.

The $16 billion provided by the stimulus bill for weatherization projects is responsible, Vice President Joe Biden, who is overseeing the program, said today in conjunction with Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois.

Biden singled out Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago window manufacturing plant shuttered late last year, laying off 250 union workers. Republic was bought in bankruptcy court last week by Serious Materials, a California-based company that makes energy efficient windows.

"Serious... has announced plans to reopen the Republic factory and to eventually rehire all 250 of its laid-off workers at their former pay levels,'' Biden said today - pointing to the Serious statement that it picked up the closed Republican because the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will boost demand for its products.

""The reopening of this factory and the rehiring of these workers provide an excellent example of how the money in the Recovery Act is targeted to spur job creation quickly," Biden said today. "These workers will not only earn a paycheck again; they will go back to work creating products that will benefit America's long-term economic future."

"When Republic shut its doors in December, the jobs Illinois lost were not only good paying jobs, they were good for the environment too," Durbin said. "Those are the very jobs we need to preserve in order to put our economy back on track. The economic recovery package has recreated a market for energy efficient materials that virtually disappeared as our economic crisis deepened.''






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[Clio the Leo]

1. And we all remember Republic from the days before the Blago mess erupted.

It was there that the former Governor joined workers on the picket line challenging anyone who doubted his integrety to wiretap his office.

He was arrested the next morning.

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2. the resulting company needs a new name :)