Chase offers cash for window company workers

Another creditor is offering money to the owner of the Chicago factory where laid-off workers are staging a sit-in in a demand for pay.

The office of Congressman Luis Gutierrez says JP Morgan Chase has pledged $400,000 to use strictly for the workers laid off last week by Republic Windows and Doors.

The window company's main creditor is Bank of America, and that bank has also offered a limited line of credit so the workers can be paid.

The company abruptly laid off 240 employees last week and about 200 of them responded to the plant's closing by occupying it.

They swear they'll stay until they get assurances that they'll receive severance and accrued vacation pay.

Bank of America has been criticized for cutting off the plant's credit after taking federal bailout money.