Sensata, Bain Capital, Freeport IL:
The workers have set up a protest camp, Bainport. Here is a photo gallery:
http://www.journalstandard.com/photos/x1610022210/Freeport-plant-workers-protest-outsourcing
On edit: here is the article:http://www.journalstandard.com/news/x887150434/Sensata-workers-go-Bainport-to-protest-Freeport-outsourcing
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The plywood stage in "Bainport" was empty Wednesday, a mere prop in the economic and political sketch playing near Sensata Technologies over outsourcing U.S. jobs.
By December, Sensata will have eliminated 170 jobs in Freeport, moving production of electronic automotive sensors to China. Sensata is owned by Bain Capital, of which GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is former CEO.
Sensata activist say they'd love Romney to come to Freeport and get on that Bainport stage in the protest camp they set up Sept. 12 and will occupy until the end of October, when the Stephenson County Fairgrounds closes for the year. They want Romney to use his clout with his former company to save their jobs, which pay $12 to $18 an hour, plus benefits, and pay for mortgages, medical bills, groceries. tuition bills, gasoline, car loans and other expenses people incur.
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iirc, Tampa's ABC affiliate covered it (with some of their reporting filtering up to the network), as did AP. The five camped with Occupy protesters and did a good job getting some attention there for the plight of Sensata employees.
I wouldn't hold my breath 'til Romney visits the Bainport encampment, but you never know. The way things are going for him, who knows what the hell kind of Hail Mary he'll throw next? 
