Our favorite left-wing commie commando prick Blagojevich lies to and displaces Pontiac’s white workers. He closed down the center of Pontiac’s economy. This is just part of a continued trend of Blagojevich and the left wing to destroy white working America. Instead of trying to bring in factories, and other jobs, they’d rather outsource our jobs and hire illegal aliens to do white jobs at half the price. While your cutting funding for jobs, schools, and all kinds of other important things, why don’t you cut welfare for these lazy ass niggers? Oh wait, that’s racist and it doesn’t fit your Marxist agenda. But it fits your agenda to completely screw whitey. Thanks, we appreciate it. Remember when we are starving, jobless, and dying that we are not going to forget this traitorous government that did it to us.
http://www.pjstar.com/news_state/x337323969/Pontiac-mayor-Job-loss-task-force-a-sham
Pontiac Mayor Scott McCoy contends “nothing has happened” since Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced he was forming a task force to help the Pontiac area deal with the impending loss of a state prison that Blagojevich wants shuttered.
“Really, nothing has materialized,” McCoy said Thursday. “It was all a sham by the governor.”
But an aide to Blagojevich disagrees with McCoy’s assessment, saying the task force is making plans to assist Pontiac Correctional Center employees who will be looking for new jobs.
“We have been working on this, and we have been meeting,” said Blagojevich spokeswoman Jill Watson. “We intend to reach out to the local elected officials, but our first priority was the employees.”
For example, she said, two “pre-layoff workshops” have been scheduled for next week. There, more than a half-dozen organizations will offer prison employees “a menu of resources,” such as information about financial planning, job searching and filing for unemployment insurance benefits, Watson said.
Also, the Illinois Department of Employment Security will coordinate a Pontiac-area job fair in January, she said.
In addition, Watson said, state officials are pursuing a federal grant that would pay for an economic study of the Pontiac region – the goal being to diversify the economy and attract and retain businesses.
That was news to McCoy, who said getting such a grant is “hopeful, wishful thinking.”
“If the state can assist workers and assist the communities, I think that’s a good thing. But I’m not seeing it,” McCoy said. “I can’t believe they’re doing anything without even asking if I would be willing to participate.”
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s still empty promises,” he added.
Blagojevich unveiled the task force on Oct. 29, when he issued a news release saying it would consist of representatives from 10 state agencies, including the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the Department of Human Services. The panel would “develop real solutions and find ways to help the Pontiac community during this transition, and give them the help they need,” he said in the release.
The Democratic governor has said that closing the 137-year-old prison would save the state money. Some of the Pontiac inmates would be sent to a newer prison in Thomson, parts of which haven’t been fully utilized because the state couldn’t afford to open them.
Opponents of the Pontiac prison closure, however, think the governor’s plan is politically motivated. They say that shutting down the prison will devastate the regional economy and cause other state prisons to become more overcrowded and dangerous.
The prison employs about 570 people, making it the second-largest employer in Pontiac and in Livingston County behind only Caterpillar Inc. The Department of Corrections has said the Pontiac prison employees can continue to work for the agency, but they will have to go to other locations.
The department said in October that it would cease operations at the prison by Dec. 31, but the facility apparently will stay open past that date because of an ongoing legal battle.
Saunemin Mayor Mike Stoecklin, who also serves as chairman of the Greater Livingston County Economic Development Council, thinks the governor’s task force should have shared more information about its efforts by now.
“Here we are on December 4th,” he said. “Five weeks ago, you would have thought that you would have heard more from them, with four weeks to go” before the previously announced Dec. 31 closure.
“I hope they don’t wait till Christmas,” Stoecklin added.
http://www.yourheartofillinois.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=229490
PEORIA — A local man says he and about 50 others who work at Caterpillar are getting the boot and having their jobs outsourced to India.
We talked to one man who says Caterpillar is unnecessarily putting many locals out of work.
We learned that these employees work for Cat through a contractor called Volt Services.
They man the company’s internal help desk, taking calls from Cat offices around the globe about computer and equipment problems. But in about two months, they say people on the other side of the ocean will be doing their work.
The person we spoke to didn’t want his name or face revealed for fear of retribution.
He says after Cat gave them the news, some employees left voluntarily. The rest have until the end of January, which is the target date for Cat to finish its transition.
He says he understands business is business, but if Cat is outsourcing to make money, the company is doing it at the expense of the local economy, since people who work on the help desk are local.
“That’s not helping anybody on American soil. Basically what’s happening is all these jobs are going overseas and none of that money is coming back to the United States. It’s staying overseas or in Cat’s pocket,” the source said.
The employee tells us Cat told Volt Services it was outsourcing to India to fit its budget.
When we called a Caterpillar spokesman for answers, he told us: no comment.
In October, Caterpillar announced record revenues for the third quarter.
