REVOLT ON GOOSE ISLAND

Revolt on Goose Island

Revolt on Goose Island

Task 1:

“Turn out all the lights right now,” a supervisor at Republic Windows and Doors notified Armando Robles as he was covering up the second move at the manufacturer on Goose Island, a little hive of commerce seated in the middle of the Chicago River. It was about 10 p.m. on November 5, 2008. Robles considered the alignment odd, as other workers were still completing up. “Everyone has to depart right now,” the supervisor said. For a while Robles and other employees had been doubtful about goings-on at the factory. They knew enterprise had been awful for the past two years; the lodgings smash into intended not numerous persons were in the market for new windows and doors. At monthly “town auditorium meetings” the business had begun retaining over the past year, managers were certainly bemoaning how much cash they were losing. And the workforce had been almost slashing in half in the past couple of years, from nearly 500 to 250. Something appeared to be up, and Robles sensed certain it wasn't good (Paul 2002).

He and young individual employee Sergio Revuelta left the construction as if not anything was amiss, then huddled in the shaded out-of-doors the plant. They observed as the vegetation supervisor and a previous supervisor came out and looked round carefully. Five vehicles motored up. That was strange. Robles and Revuelta observed as the men started eliminating cartons and parts of mechanism from the low-slung, inconspicuous warehouse. They crept round to the back, where they glimpsed a U-Haul waiting with its lights off. Over the next couple of hours, they shivered and peeped as they observed a parade of things being laden into the U-Haul. The only illumination came from the lightweight on a forklift. By nearly ...