Don't Get Bained

Workers tell voters the truth about Romney’s economic plan.

Below: The Bain Worker Bus Tour is making stops in New York Missouri, Massachusetts, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Workers who have been "Bained" and lost their jobs when Bain Capital, formerly headed by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, took over their company, are on a bus tour to tell everyone just what a Romney economy promises for the future: lost jobs, lost health care, lost pensions and lots of outsourcing and offshoring.

The bus tour stopped outside Bain Capital headquarters in New York this week, and workers from the Bain-owned Sensata plant in Freeport, Ill., were greeted by a crowd including lots of union members and supporters. "I've worked at Sensata Technologies for six years, and next month my job is being outsourced to China," said Mary Jo Kerr. "Knowing that co-workers and I will be jobless, while the Chinese economy and its people will benefit from Bain Capital's selfish business practices makes me angry." After Bain bought Sensata in 2006, workers went from having jobs to seeing those jobs offshored in just six years.

The bus then headed to the Presidential debate at Hofstra University, where more workers spoke up about Bain.

According to the Washington Post, "During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission...Bain played several roles in helping these outsourcing companies, such as investing venture capital so they could grow, and providing management and strategic business advice as they navigated this rapidly developing field."