Workers say other options just don't compare to Collins

RANTOUL – Chris Allen has been looking for a new job for two years. But he's having a hard time finding anything that equals what he gets at Collins & Aikman.

"I found plenty of jobs in the area, but the money I'd be making was never close to the dollar amount I'm getting now," Allen, a maintenance mechanic who has worked at the Rantoul auto-parts plant for 13 1/2 years, said at a job fair Tuesday in Rantoul.

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