Alexi recently visited Collinsville to meet with workers and discuss the outsourcing of jobs overseas:

COLLINSVILLE -- A day after President Obama campaigned for Alexi Giannoulias to take Obama's old seat in the Senate, Giannoulias appeared with union workers in Collinsville to tout his jobs plan.

Giannoulias spoke among members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 309 Friday afternoon, flanked by state Rep. Tom Holbrook, D-Belleville, and state Sen. James Clayborne, D-East St. Louis, remembering some workers who had lost jobs transferred to China and South Korea that he met when touring the metro-east during the primary.

"Unfortunately, it's a story that is all too common," Giannoulias said, citing the Economic Policy Institute in estimating 80,000 jobs lost in Illinois alone from 2001 to 2006.