‘Outsourced’ Workers Chase Elusive ‘Romney Hood’

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13723/outsourced_workers_chase_elusive_romney_hood

After Bain moved their jobs to China, three auto-parts workers are knocking on Romney’s door


Protesters have branded Mitt Romney a reverse-Robin Hood, who gives profits to the rich by stealing jobs from the poor. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Cheryl Randecker is hot on the trail of an elusive bandit, and she needs your help.

The bad guy's name is Romney Hood. Unlike his good twin Robin, Romney made a career of robbing the poor to get rich before setting off on a quest to be president so that he could help all the rich rob all the poor. (Business school MBAs call this “scaling up.”)

But Romney's old gang–the Bain (Capital) Gang–is still hard at work in the guise of a private equity firm. And Sensata, a Bain-owned company, is now in the process of shutting down the Freeport, Ill., sensor factory that it bought from Honeywell, in order to relocate it to China. Meanwhile, the roughly 170 workers like Randecker at the plant have been training their Chinese replacements while facing unemployment this November, in a region that has lost much of its once-strong industrial base.

In a last-ditch effort to save the jobs that the overwhelmingly female and middle-aged workforce has relied on to raise their families–often for several decades–Randecker and her co-workers have been trying to meet with candidate and Bain co-founder Mitt Romney to ask him to intervene.