Workers at Bain-owned Sensata plant to walk out in response to management threats
Source: The Rock River Times
FREEPORT, Ill. — Workers facing outsourcing at the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport, Ill., plan to walk off the job at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25, in protest of what they termed “repeated threats against and harassment of employees by Sensata management.”
The walkout comes on the heels of 14 arrests during a march on the plant yesterday, Oct. 24, during which the Rev. Jesse Jackson and three workers were arrested.
The 14 arrests Oct. 24 bring to 23 the total number of arrests since workers began protesting the outsourcing of their jobs.
Workers also filed two unfair labor practice charges against the company with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Oct. 24 for cracking down on protected concerted activity and threatening to close the plant early if workers continued to protest.
Read more: http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/10/25/workers-at-bain-owned-sensata-plant-to-walk-out-in-response-to-management-threats/
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This is an interesting development. 
...but he did end his show with it.
You are NOT forgiven, and you ARE a troll.
But I'll respond to your garbage post, anyways...
From a letter to the editor I wrote to our local Freeport paper explaining exactly "...what has this got to do with Romney?"
Pay attention, troll.
None of the employees whose jobs will be soon shipped to Red China have ever claimed that Mitt Romney was the current head of the company. The workers and their many supporters contacted the company’s board of directors and Sensata’s current CEO — as did our local representatives — to plead the former Honeywell workers case, but to no avail. Sensata’s Board of Directors responded to their soon-to-be laid off employees that the decision to move the plant to Red China was in order to be “closer to their Asian customers.”
That means that the company sees no future in American exports and that they also think we’re all idiots.
First, if a company believes that U.S. exports are a thing of the past, they certainly shouldn’t be rewarded with tax incentives to move off-shore, let alone a foreign trade treaty.
Secondly, Sensata’s “Asian customers” are unquestionably other Chinese factories who will use Sensata’s products to produce goods destined for our shores.
And that’s where Mitt Romney comes in...
The company’s response meant taking the workers’ case directly to the company’s stock holders as a last ditch effort to keep their jobs in Freeport, and Mitt Romney is, and has always been, the company’s main shareholder.
To Mr. Heilman, and to those others who refuse to open their eyes, I say this: Too many Americans falsely believe that the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas is an inherent right that American employers have earned and deserve.
But such is not the case.
No trade treaty with Red China, no outsourcing U.S. jobs to Red China.
To paraphrase George W. Bush’s former labor secretary, while no American worker is entitled to a good paying job, let alone one with decent benefits, no American employer is entitled to communist Chinese labor, either.
There’s no giant corporate tax break that a company could ever get that would match the profits that a domestic employer could pocket using overseas communist slave-labor and no government regulation that could be done away with that would make up for the horrible working conditions that Chinese labor toils under.
I’d wise up real quick, Mr. Heilman.
Your job is next.
http://www.journalstandard.com/newsnow/x772636936/J-S-Letter-Outsourcing-is-not-an-inherent-right-of-U-S-business
Consider yourself schooled, Progree.
?1350740676They should do a tv show LOL
Maybe you could be the lead in a Buffy like show
And since it probably won't come out on any news programs, I just donated, to help.
[link:://|I hope enough people see it to do some good, provided they aren't too burnt out already
