"Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn't Work for Bain"

[louis-t]

The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured three speakers billed as "former employees of companies controlled by Bain Capital."

But it turns out one of those employees never actually worked for a company controlled by Bain Capital. David Foster was supposedly one of those former employees on the convention schedule. He told the story about 750 steelworkers who lost their jobs when the Bain-controlled company GST steel filed for bankruptcy in the early 1990s.

But Foster, according to a former spokesman for GST Steel, never actually worked for the company. "David Foster was never an employee of GST Steel's Kansas City plant. He was employed by the United Steelworkers of America as their regional union director to represent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facility," according to BC Huselton, who was head of HR at GST. Instead, Foster was a union organizer, who negotiated for workers that did work for the company. Foster explained in his remarks that he was an organizer during his dealings with GST Steel.

http://news.yahoo.com/steelworker-featured-dnc-didnt-bain-165325041--abc-news-politics.html

Seems to me like he told exactly who he was and what his job was. Totally different than a person who claims they voted for Obama, yet were employed by the repug party since before Obama was elected.

[JI7]

1. i don't see what the problem is, he told about the other workers

is this some desperation to try to "balance" anything negative(truth) they would have to say about ROmney ?

[nc4bo]

2. +1 and of course it is..

and it's obvious.

[TeamPooka]

3. That's all they got?

[Flashmann]

4. I don't recall Foster claiming he worked for Bain

Seems to me like he told exactly who he was and what his job was. Totally different than a person who claims they voted for Obama, yet were employed by the repug party since before Obama was elected.

I agree...


He was employed by the United Steelworkers of America as their regional union director to represent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facility...........That's what I recall.....

[Spazito]

5. Exactly! He spoke about having to go to the employees and tell them they....

have lost their pensions, etc. It was clear he was their union representative. He spoke about what Bain, while under Romney's 'rule', did to the company and to the men who worked there.

[LeftofObama]

7. That's what I remember hearing.

I saw him last night and that's exactly what he said.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. He never said he did that I recall.

I'll go back and check, but I'm pretty sure he never made that claim. Only how he had to interact with the employees who lost their job. Yes?