Romney in Tampa – Factory workers prepare to confront over Bain layoffs

Illinois car-part plant employees head to Tampa to protest outsourcing of jobs to China by parent company Bain Capital

To the four people sitting in church at a Tampa suburb, coming to the Republican national convention to protest Mitt Romney felt deeply personal, not just political.

For all of them are workers at an Illinois car parts factory whose parent firm Sensata is majority-owned by Bain Capital, the company once run by Romney and in which he still has millions of dollars of investments.

Now their plant in the small town of Freeport is being closed and shipped piece by piece to China.

They have trained their Chinese replacements, watched colleagues get laid off and by the end of the year they will have lost their jobs too.

They want Romney to know about it. So they have come to Tampa to join protests aimed at highlighting his links to Bain and outsourcing American jobs overseas…

via Factory workers prepare to confront Romney in Tampa over Bain layoffs | World news | guardian.co.uk.