These folks are getting the outsourced jobs — Do you think they trust Bain?
As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces a withering attack over outsourcing and layoffs by his former firm, Bain Capital, employees at a Bain-owned company are appealing to Romney to stop their jobs being shipped overseas…
The plant’s employees are calling on Romney to use his influence with former Bain colleagues to keep the plant open.
The workers signed a petition asking him to help, and the Freeport City Council passed a motion on Monday urging the candidate to step in to save the jobs.
“If he wanted to, all he needs to do is call up the management of Bain Capital and say, ‘Look, don’t do this,’” said Tom Gaulrapp, who has worked at the factory for 33 years…
As a major investor in Sensata, Romney could gain from an outsourcing move that is likely to cut costs and increase the company’s presence in emerging markets.
Sensata bought the Freeport plant as part of an acquisition of Honeywell International’s auto-sensor business in late 2010. The 170 jobs there were at risk from the start of the purchase…In their first meeting with their new employers when the deal was completed in January 2011, workers at the plant were told their jobs would be eliminated by the end of 2012.
Chinese workers have since been brought in to learn how to operate the equipment. The first batch of layoff notices went out last week…
No doubt Romney will consider all the political factors involved in this decision – and do nothing. He’s a do-nothing kind of guy.
Romney didn’t fire those people. Somebody else did that.
Romney would first have to give 1/100 of a shit about them. Not going to happen.
This is not Romney’s problem regardless of how much the BS manufacturing machine tries to make it his problem.
Bain Capital today is run by mostly Obama campaign donors. Why doesn’t Obama get his campaign donors to keep this plant in Illinois?
Illinois is also once of the most anti-business friendly states in the nation. I’m surprised there are ANY manufacturing facilities left in that state.
Why is Illinios such an anti-business friendly state? The blame is squarely at the feet of Democrats and people like Obama and his supporters.
As long as corporations have to satisfy greedy investors who want to make money even in bad economic times, we will have low quality products at high prices made by foreigners.
The chinese can’t even make good flyswatters. I used a cheap chinese flyswatter and the head flew off. Design problem? The wires were not at an angle when they go into the plastic swatter.
American made flyswatters have been the same design for decades and have been trusty and cheap. But some corporation decided they could save 5 cents per unit and move the manufacturing to China.
Now we are flooded by flyswatters that break the moment you use them, but hey they’re $1.00 cheaper.