A giant photocopied bounced check hanging on the wall at the Rolling Meadows' office of the Chicago Workers Collaborative serves as a frustrating reminder for Kim Cambra.
Cambra maintained the computer systems for Duraco Products Inc., a Streamwood factory that molded plastic gardening items like watering cans. The 500,000-square-foot factory closed after filing for bankruptcy in February. Cambra enjoyed her job, which she depended on to keep food on the table as a single mother of two. Her wages also helped her with mortgage payments on the family's home in Elmhurst.
Then last September, a $968.45 paycheck bounced, leaving her behind on her mortgage payments and without money for her children's Christmas gifts, she said.
But she says it wasn't the first time it happened. Cambra and…
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