Solar plant workers sent home without pay on day of presidential visit...
FREMONT (KRON) -- Construction workers at the Solyndra Plant in Fremont will be spending the day at home Wednesday without pay as President Obama visits the company to praise its work on solar panels.
Union workers have been told not to come back until Thursday because of security concerns associated with the President's visit. Workers tell KRON 4's Kate Thompson this day off means they won't get paid.
"It's with no pay and we have no choice," construction worker Adam Bracamontes told Kate. "We have to take a day off and come back Thursday. We don't get to meet the President. We're the workers and we don't get to see him."
"I'm a little bummed because I would love to meet the President," worker Rich Patten added. "We were told we had the day off so it is what it is."
KRON 4's Gabe Slate reports the President chose Solyndra because it received stimulus funds to help create green jobs.
Neither the company nor several unions returned Kate's calls for comment on why the workers were losing a day's pay for the President's visit.
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