Convention Highlights

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Originally Posted by Danzig

http://news.yahoo.com/steelworker-fe...-politics.html

The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured three speakers billed as "former employees of companies controlled by Bain Capital."

They each told compelling stories about jobs lost, allegedly because of the actions of Bain under Romney's leadership.

But it turns out one of those employees never actually worked for a company controlled by Bain Capital.

Yeah. He was only the union organizer for that workplace, working at that steel plant, with management and employees at GST Steel.

True - Bain didn't pay his salary. The union did. But he worked at GST Steel, didn't he?

Not much of a fib at all, when the point of the story is the jobs and pensions lost by those steelworkers due to Bain Capital. The guy in charge of negotiating that would know all about that. In painful detail, in the suffering of the employees that lost their pensions and jobs. And, in fact, he said he worked for the union when he told the story.

So the problem is ... ?

He was employed by the United Steelworkers of America as their regional union director to represent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facility," according to BC Huselton, who was head of HR at GST. Instead, Foster was a union organizer, who negotiated for workers that did work for the company. Foster explained in his remarks that he was an organizer during his dealings with GST Steel.