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		<title>Laid-Off Qimonda Workers Fight Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fletcher Acosta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwjnational/3786523374/"><img class="alignright" title="Qimonda Workers Fight Back" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3786523374_4f45d365f2_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a>Until recently, thousands of people in the Richmond, VA area worked for Qimonda USA making memory chips for computers.  In October of 2008, Qimonda started to lay off workers.  Three months later Qimonda filed for bankruptcy and hundreds more workers were laid-off.  </p>
<p>Today, only 46 people work for a company that once employed thousands.</p>
<p>When Qimonda filed for bankruptcy, most of the workers did not receive severance pay, pay for accrued time off, or other money they were owed.  In fact, <strong>many workers did not even get paid for their last two weeks of work &#8211; their paychecks bounced</strong>.  </p>
<p>During bankruptcy proceedings, instead of standing up for the hundreds of laid-off workers, <strong>the company asked for and received incentive bonuses of up to $1.24 million for the 46 remaining employees!</strong></p>
<p>Watch this video to see their story.</p>
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<p><strong>These workers are fighting to get the pay they are owed, and <a href="http://richmondjwj.org/" target=blank>Richmond Jobs with Justice</a> is standing strong beside them, but they need your help.</strong>  Please<strong><a href="http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/qimonda" target="_blank"> sign <p>Continue reading <a href="http://www.jwjblog.org/2009/08/laid-off-qimonda-workers-fight-back/">Laid-Off Qimonda Workers Fight Back</a></p>]]></description>
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