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Former Hostess workers in Rocky Mount 'relieved' at plant closing (Can't get much dumber)
NBC 17 ^ | 11/16/2012 | JUSTIN QUESINBERRY

Posted on 11/16/2012 2:14:27 PM PST by tobyhill

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To: cripplecreek

I guess I’m really stupid. North Carolina is a right to work state, is it not?


81 posted on 11/16/2012 3:07:27 PM PST by USMCWife6869
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

“In a company that’s declared bankruptcy (TWICE!), mind you. ;)”

I wonder what the compensation was for the execs.
I seem to recall that in the last 15 years lots of corporations were driven into the ground by execs who then bailed out with their own private golden parachutes.

If that’s the case here then I find it hard to care if they went under.
I don’t know any details so this may not be like that, but if it were the execs padding their own pockets while asking the workers to take a paycut then I think the stikers were justified.


82 posted on 11/16/2012 3:08:29 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: re_nortex
Good I am glad they got fired and may they have more bad times ahead. I could care less what happens to the people. They are part of the reason Ohole is the president they can all rot for all I care or choke on a rotten twinkie.
83 posted on 11/16/2012 3:08:57 PM PST by funfan
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To: tobyhill
Then you got your health benefits going up...

Gee, I wonder who this assclown voted for?

84 posted on 11/16/2012 3:09:17 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: tobyhill

Personally, I blame all this on Michele Obama and her stupid program to reduce obesity. She scared everyone off Twinkies.

Personally, I don’t eat them, preferring Tasty Kake myself. But if there are any left at the supermarket, I’m gonna stock up.


85 posted on 11/16/2012 3:09:23 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: cripplecreek

WI is kickin’ @ss these days! Republicans OWN our Governorship, House and Assembly, even though we helped 0bama win and foisted Tammy Baldwin (Lesbian Foremost, D, WI) on the rest of America to the Senate. BUT - she’ll be a little tiny fish in a HUGE pond filled with men who hate women anyway, so I’m not that worried that her name will be on any legislation within the next decade.

And as an ADDED BONUS, this week Governor Walker joined the swelling ranks of ‘united’ Governors who are saying “NO” to the healthcare exchanges. The Feds need to foot the bill...and the Feds ain’t got no monies to do so. Bwaa-Haa-Haa!

Happy, Happy ‘over here’ these days!

Now - can our legislature continue to GOVERN and LEAD like Conservatives? We. Shall. See. *SHRUG*


86 posted on 11/16/2012 3:12:32 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: tobyhill

There’s a reason Barry met with the Union Thugs and these people aren’t worried and don’t care about the non-union/fellow Hostess workers are out of a job. Something was promised to them. (at taxpayers expense) Perhaps an Executive Order paying the Union Workers who lost their jobs striking, more than unemployment?


87 posted on 11/16/2012 3:13:02 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline, (it's back). 2008, the Decline of America)
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To: tobyhill

Translation:

“I gets to sit HOME fuh two years for FREE on da Unemployment.”

This is just partial retirement for the Union Workers. Now they get Unemployment, plus food stamps, plus who knows what else, to sit home and watch TV all day for 99 weeks. You betcha they are happy.

Not for me, but if you are a lazy slacker, there are much worse things than being paid a small stipend not to work for 2 years.


88 posted on 11/16/2012 3:13:08 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Pray to God. Apologize to your children.)
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To: Safrguns

They don’t want to work. Barackoclaus will give then dough to sit home on their lazy asses.

When the dough runs out? They will hit the streets and complain.


89 posted on 11/16/2012 3:13:50 PM PST by dforest
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To: Fledermaus

Usually, I don’t like rude posts. But yours made me laugh out loud.


90 posted on 11/16/2012 3:14:56 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: memyselfandi59

Probably not- but this is coming from somebody who just read “The Twinkie, Deconstructed”. :)


91 posted on 11/16/2012 3:15:37 PM PST by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: snarkybob
Instaed of speculating about the Execs screwing the poor
little workers why don’t you do some reasearch and find out.
I am sure it is public record what they were paid and don’t you think if that was the case the MSM would be plastering it all over the air waves?
92 posted on 11/16/2012 3:16:05 PM PST by funfan
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To: tobyhill

I’d be willing to bet that not a single one of these “workers” will ever get a job again that pays as much as the deal they turned down.


93 posted on 11/16/2012 3:16:44 PM PST by WackySam (Obama got Osama just like Nixon landed on the moon.)
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To: pgkdan

Don’t forget OBAMAPHONE!


94 posted on 11/16/2012 3:17:39 PM PST by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: WKTimpco

I don’t believe that they will get unemployment. The union members - that is. The other workers will.

(This is the only thing keeping me smiling about the horrible situation.)


95 posted on 11/16/2012 3:18:20 PM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: TheOldLady; darkwing104
*sniff*...?
96 posted on 11/16/2012 3:18:50 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yeah we have a pretty solid hold on the legislature in Michigan despite our puddinhearted governor. I’d love to see our attorney general run for the top spot.

Just last week the legislature stripped the DEQ of the power to designate areas as special or otherwise off limits without legislative approval. Just a few months back they eliminated the state permit requirements to retrofit some small dams for hydroelectric.


97 posted on 11/16/2012 3:20:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: re_nortex

From the Video, I would say they were not all that productive either. You are at the mercy of your workers. Great workers will get you higher profits. These look like type of workers that would do the least they had to not to get fired, and that’s about it.

Whoever buys the Hostess name and starts up again needs to do so without Union labor. An investor would be insane to buy them if the Union slackers come for the ride. Just insane.

You can see they are really looking forward to their 99 weeks of vacation.


98 posted on 11/16/2012 3:20:59 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Pray to God. Apologize to your children.)
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To: tobyhill
If I were hiring, I would never knowingly hire a union worker nor would I set up a business in a union state.

Why would I want to hire someone who comes with built in hostility toward me and the company, who is going to bring in a third party parasite to suck the life blood out of the company through extortion to make me pay people I now can't fire more than they are worth?

Screw that and screw you. I'm going to go set up shop in a country that wants me to be there and then hire people who want to work for me.

That's not a choice I would have come to, I want to do that in my hometown. But, it is one you union workers force on those who might make the mistake of hiring you.

Here. Have a Twinkie.

99 posted on 11/16/2012 3:21:03 PM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: shadeaud

“Where do I sign up for welfare...”

oh,...and an obamaphone?


100 posted on 11/16/2012 3:23:54 PM PST by Heart of Georgia
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