From: "Bill Bianchi" <illinois@pdamerica.org>
Date: Jun 29, 2012 3:26 PM
Subject: Freeport workers call on Romney to stop outsourcing their jobs
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
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Romney's Bain Capital to outsource 170 Freeport IL Jobs to China
Employees asked to train Chinese replacements!
Dear Daniel, Please distribute widely to your networks.
By Ashlee Rezin Friday June 29th, 2012, Progress Illinois
In response to more than 170 impending layoffs at Sensata Technologies, a Bain Capital-owned plant slated to be outsourced, a collection of community, religious, and labor leaders have promised to ban together and fight back to save the Freeport jobs.
"When I found out that my job was going to be shipped overseas to China ... at first I was angry, now just five or six months away from unemployment, I'm scared," said Cheryl Randecker, a Sensata employee who has worked at the plant for 33 years. "As a single mother, I don't just worry about myself, I actually worry about my daughter.
In early 2011, Sensata, a maker of sensors and controls that are used in aircraft, automobiles, and electric motors, announced it would be relocating the jobs in Freeport to China and closing the local plant. Normal operations have continued following the announcement, but hundreds of jobs are being phased out gradually and final layoffs are set to occur just before the holidays in December.
On a conference call Thursday, Randecker was joined by more than 10 community leaders and activists in a pledge to fight the impending layoffs.
"When I found out that I was losing my job I realized I couldn't support my daughter's education," said Randecker on the conference call. "After working hard for so many years and giving so much to my job, I should be able to give my daughter a good education ... I don't even know how I'm going to make my house payments and pay my bills."
Randecker and her fellow employees are currently training their Chinese replacements, who have been flown to Illinois by the company, a process she says is "challenging."
"We know now from a couple decades of experience how fully destructive outsourcing is, it's creating a race to the bottom, it's driving out wages and working conditions for workers all over this country, it's leaving communities absolutely devastated and that's what's going to happen here if this proceeds," said Carl Rosen, president of District 11 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, on the conference all. "We frankly don't know what Bain Capital is thinking."
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