Max: Outsourced Sensata Worker on Training Her Chinese Replacement

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My name is Bonnie and I've worked at the Sensata factory for 23 years
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Last year Bain Capital bought our company
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and we found out that our jobs were going overseas
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Bain sent over workers from China to learn our jobs
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so that they could replace us
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One of the workers that I met that came here from China went by the name of Max
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But they all took on American names so that we would be able to pronounce them while we trained them to do our jobs
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Max had a family in China, a wife and a little boy that he talked about a lot
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and I know that he missed a lot while he was here
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Max would ask me, what was next for me after my job left and I would have to tell him that I didn't really know
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I'm 52 and it's not easy to start over at this age
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With a Romney economy we're looking at basically all the good-paying, well-benefit jobs being outsourced to China
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and the jobs that are created are all going to be service jobs that pay minimum wage or less
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I'd like to see a time when Max can come here to visit and see all the sights that we have in this country
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and other people like him come and visit, but not come here because they're training to take our jobs back to China

Title:: Max: Outsourced Sensata Worker on Training Her Chinese Replacement
Description:: Bain Capital-owned Sensata is outsourcing its plant in Freeport, IL to China. Bonnie Borman is losing her job to outsourcing after working for Sensata for 23 years.

This is the Romney Economy: companies outsource well-paying American jobs to further enrich their wealthy investors, and American workers face unemployment or low-wage jobs with no benefits.

Bonnie tells her story of getting to know one of the Chinese workers, Max, who she was training to do her job.

Bonnie says, "I'd like to see a time when Max could come here to visit and see all the sights that we have in this country, and other people like him come and visit, but not come here because they're training to take our jobs back to China."

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Video Language:: English
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Duration:: 01:55

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