Time
is ticking for the 170 workers set to lose their jobs to outsourcing by
Bain Capital-owned Sensata Technologies, which manufactures and
develops sensors and controls for airplanes, automobiles and motors.
The company's Freeport, IL factory is scheduled to close in November,
with the jobs and equipment headed overseas.
After months of protests,
visiting campaign offices, and delivering a 35,000-signature petition,
the workers are trying yet another tactic to try to save their jobs:
Setting up camp outside the Freeport factory in protest
of Sensata shipping their jobs to China.
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A dispute between Gov. Pat Quinn and Illinois Republicans on the pace
of implementing a Medicaid eligibility verification system raises the
larger issue of whether the state can actually cut a total of 
As the days draw closer to October 1, when about 375 state
social workers will be laid off, a group of more than 350 angry Illinois
Department of Child and Family Service (DCFS) employees showed up at Gov. Pat
Quinn’s Chicago office Tuesday afternoon to decry recent budget cuts. 
Illinois prison reform advocates received news sparking two causes for concern in the last few days.
