Chicago Workers' Plant Occupation Ends in Victory

I think the plant occupation was fantastic ! I think the settlement was a victory . BUT (yes there's a but ) the fact remains that the plant does remain shutdown and if it ever does reopen under who's ownership ? The United Electrical workers Union ? Would the Union leaders be the bosses ? Or are they thinking of a workers co-op (which historically haven't worked too well )
It was good that they did get the eight weeks pay but in other settings that would be a very small severance . In the 90's i was at a job where the corporation wanted to shut down our facility . They offered us two weeks severance per year of work plus two months continued medical . We held out for much more , had work slowdowns , on site rallies etc. and eventually won four weeks per year of work and four months medical for single workers and six months for those with family coverage . So while it was a fairly new job the longest serving workers walked away with 24 weeks and the average with 12 weeks .
None of this detracts from the great effort of the Republic workers . But i can't help but think that they could have won much more if they would have held out longer . Yes the'' Friends of Labor ''' like the Illinois Governor probably would have dropped their support (Ok Blago isn't he best example since he's going to be preoccupied anyway ! but there are many others ) but i think their working class support , which after all is the most important , would have stayed strong .

Mario raises some good points. I would add what would have happened if the cops had moved in to evict the occupiers like in the orginal 1930's Flint Sit down strike ? What would the''Friends of Labor '' do then ? What about Union officials who said they were 200% behind that great action ?