Some 380 jobs here in Michigan that will be lost as well.
Sorry to be selfish, but I miss the loss of my INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & FREEDOMS versus the loss of a Twinkie and a lot of jobs.
*SIGH* Have we fallen off the fiscal cliff, yet? Can we speed it up a little bit?
Heh...the union was claiming that this was actually some kind of victory for its newly out-of-work members.
Well, somebody had to pay for the union knuckledraggers to have their “great victory” over “big bidness”. The union commies are showing “resolve” don’t ya know.
Cry me a river...
OK, if they sell the assets, could they be purchased, and new owners move the plant to right-to-work states and resume business?
This is operation that isn’t going to Mexico or China, they just couldn’t compete with US companies.
And ironically the private equity boys who looted and pillaged it were DEMOCRATS:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-16/hostess-liquidation-curious-cast-characters-twinkie-tumbles
...when does this socialist pile of crap end? :(
The Teamsters Union was smart enough to realize that not getting everything you want is better than not having a job. However, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union of course will blame management, celebrate their union “solidarity” and gave a lot of their members and their families a very bleak holiday.
The brands are valuable, the facilities are pretty much worthless.
Barry Benghazi will ride to the rescue and buy the company and brand names with taxpayers dollars. Government Twinkies! Cool!
Is their union passing out hits of Hopium?
Loosing? Really? Journalism at its finest.
I’m waiting for one of those union picketers to go....hey..wait a minute!!
Say, why doesn’t Obama just issue an executive order to confiscate all Hostess assets and give them to the union? If the capitalist vermin who claim to “own” the company protest in court, just appeal up to the USSC, and John Roberts will uphold the confiscation as a tax.
That's Hugh!
How lon before the NLRB issues a ruling yhat businesses can no longer lay off union members (no matter how dumb their labor leaders advise them to be).
How long before the NLRB issues a ruling yhat businesses can no longer lay off union members (no matter how dumb their labor leaders advise them to be).
“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike.....”
....or Obamacare
....or tax increases
....or higher energy costs,...etc.