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The Rat
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 Posted - 10/13/2012 : 14:59:37
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A Chinese Flag Flying in Freeport, Illinois?
Right now in Freeport, Illinois, some 170 workers at an auto sensor plant are sleeping in tents to protest Bain-owned Sensata Technology’s decision to ship their jobs to China.
The company recently made factory officials take down the American flag when they were forced to train their Chinese replacement workers, according to Tom Gaulrapp, with the United Steelworkers Union.
That's un-American, my friends.
This is taking place as Mitt Romney tries to convince people to believe that he doesn’t know about Bain's shipping American jobs overseas. He is trying to distance himself from Bain Capital, a pioneer of outsourcing where Romney made a fortune as CEO.
Another employee losing her job, Mary Jo Kerr, is a young mom of three. She's heartbroken because she can’t afford dance lessons for her daughter. Another is Dot Turner, so close to retirement, but will not receive it. Instead Dot will get just 26 weeks’ severance for 43 years of work in the plant.
Listen to their stories in the video above, and be sure to note the Chinese flag flying in front of the plant at about 1:10 into the video...in Illinois. |
I'm pissed that the union, and the workers, would go along with the idea of training their replacements. If you're fired, just say 'fuck you' and immediately walk out en masse with both middle fingers in the air. Pissing on the shop floor is optional, but gets points for style.
Another option would be to 'train' the replacements in such a way that it goes very badly for them and the company.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Doctor X
Voluntary Exile
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Posted - 10/13/2012 : 15:33:30 [Permalink]
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This is skeptical? Not political?
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Kil
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Posted - 10/13/2012 : 15:37:16 [Permalink]
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I moved this thread to the politics folder.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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The Rat
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Posted - 10/13/2012 : 20:25:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Doctor X
This is skeptical? Not political?
--J.D.
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Yeah, screwed up, I stepped in some romney and I wasn't thinking straight.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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On fire for Christ
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Posted - 10/14/2012 : 10:41:21 [Permalink]
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| Maybe if we all chip in, that little girl can get her dance lessons. |
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The Rat
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Posted - 10/14/2012 : 11:40:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
Maybe if we all chip in, that little girl can get her dance lessons.
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Yeah, because that's all it's about, right?
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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On fire for Christ
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Posted - 10/15/2012 : 00:21:12 [Permalink]
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| You're right. The issue is obviously that Romney left a company 10 years ago and now one of it's subsidiaries is outsourcing work. That's clearly his fault and he should pay dearly. |
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The Rat
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Posted - 10/15/2012 : 12:16:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
You're right. The issue is obviously that Romney left a company 10 years ago and now one of it's subsidiaries is outsourcing work. That's clearly his fault and he should pay dearly.
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No, it's closing and moving to China. That's the way Shitney operates. He is a proven and undeniable economic traitor. And he is still responsible for this sort of business because that's the way he set it up. It was begun with the expressed purpose of buying up small companies and making them profitable enough so that, in Shitney's own words, they could be 'harvested'. Translation: fire the workers and sell off the company and all its assets for a profit, or move it to China. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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moakley
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Posted - 10/15/2012 : 15:05:24 [Permalink]
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| One thing that puzzles me is did Sensata have a retirement plan prior to the sale and did the sale result in the retirement plan being converted into 26 weeks of severance pay? I know it is a non-union shop and I have not spent a lot of time looking, but as I read about the lady with 43 years of service it was the first thing that crossed my mind. |
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On fire for Christ
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Posted - 10/16/2012 : 01:55:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
No, it's closing and moving to China. That's the way Shitney operates. He is a proven and undeniable economic traitor. And he is still responsible for this sort of business because that's the way he set it up. It was begun with the expressed purpose of buying up small companies and making them profitable enough so that, in Shitney's own words, they could be 'harvested'. Translation: fire the workers and sell off the company and all its assets for a profit, or move it to China.
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And deprive the next generation of decent dancers. I don't know who to be more mad at. Romney, or those damn Chinese. |
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 10/17/2012 : 07:32:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
Originally posted by On fire for Christ
You're right. The issue is obviously that Romney left a company 10 years ago and now one of it's subsidiaries is outsourcing work. That's clearly his fault and he should pay dearly.
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No, it's closing and moving to China. That's the way Shitney operates. He is a proven and undeniable economic traitor. And he is still responsible for this sort of business because that's the way he set it up. It was begun with the expressed purpose of buying up small companies and making them profitable enough so that, in Shitney's own words, they could be 'harvested'. Translation: fire the workers and sell off the company and all its assets for a profit, or move it to China.
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And this was in the works 10 years ago?
There are a lot more valid reasons to criticise R-Money than this.
Subsidiaries for companies will sometimes close up shop and move. Taking down the American flag in Freeport, IL and replacing it with a Chinese one sounded fishy to me.
It was. The image associated with this piece is from a Chinese factory.
The American flag was taken down while the Chinese delegation was in.
Link to a source closer than hit pieces
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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New synonym for 'shit' - 'Romney'
