CHICAGO — The factory where laid-off workers staged a highly publicized sit-in that garnered national attention last year was sold to a California company that hopes to rehire them and open in about a month, the workers’ union and the new owner said Thursday.
The sale of the former Republic Windows and Doors plant to Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Serious Materials, a green-oriented windows manufacturer, was approved Wednesday by a bankruptcy judge.
The company has agreed to offer jobs to the former workers, said Mark Meinster, a spokesman for the workers’ union, United Electrical Workers.
Serious Materials chief executive Kevin Surace said before work can resume, a lease must be renegotiated with the factory building’s owner and plant equipment must be repaired.
