Posted on 11/15/2012 4:35:49 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Hostess Brands Inc. said it likely won't make an announcement until Friday morning on whether it will move to liquidate its business, after the company had set a Thursday deadline for striking employees to return to work.
The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread had warned employees that would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to unwind its business and sell off assets if plant operations didn't return to normal levels by 5 p.m. EST Thursday. That would result in the loss of about 18,000 jobs.
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The Teamsters meanwhile are urging the smaller union to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking. Citing its financial experts who had access to the company's books, the Teamsters say that Hostess' warning of liquidation is "not an empty threat or a negotiating tactic" but a certain outcome if workers continue striking.
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Enjoy your $55 per week strike pay. Dick Trumpka is enjoying his $600K/yr that you have so genereously supplied.
Oh, don't like that Dickie-boy lives better than most of the horrible business owners?
Take it up with your union leaders. If you live long enough.
Broken kneecaps are a small price to pay, for gettin' what the workin' man deserves.
Not as much as my mom though.
Just bought Wonder bread whole grain wheat for $.99 on sale yesterday.
And the best use of Wonder Bread was to wad it up in a pea shooter.
Tasty cake is better
I know bad things have happened before - but it seems like these things are happening too frequently. Everytime you hear the news - it's another disaster.
Maybe we lost our way as a country & these things are pay back for the way we are living now. I feel like there is a dark cloud hanging over us.
I feel myself sliding into a funk. Every day is harder than the day before.
AFL-CIO thinks it has an ‘in’ with Obama since their head Rich Trumka was hobnobbing at the White House this week.
That all the union needs to know about where they stand.
Is it too late to start hoarding? Until the sell-by date (some time in 2017) there might be money in black-market Twinkies.
Psst,...I’ll take a dime bag of Twinkies.
That stuff is crap. Won’t miss seeing it.
Interesting info on the Hostess site. thanx for posting link.
I can hear the MSM whores now. Thousands of employees left jobless by heartless employer. Employer liquidates business in spite of workers accommodations to save company.
Always had wonder bread as a kid, haven’t bought it in many many years either. I used to love the chocolate cupcakes, but a year or more ago they changed the cake, doesn’t taste the same, probably Michele Obama’s orders to make them taste like shit!
The Worker's Internationale of Naughty Konfectionary Indulgence Employees (TWINKIE) Union prepares to make its case to the White House.
Shame on ME! At a recent “Farmers’ Fair” here in flyover country, I bought something I’ve heard about for a while now. I sprang for the culinary delight called a “Deep fried Twinkie”! Not bad.....if one can stand the calories. And there is another new delicacy making the rounds out here in the boonies, too: Deep-fried Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! Goll-leee!
It will take a while to reach you. We've been extremely concerned about the NSA reading our e-mails, so Francisco d'Anconia is delivering the memos in person.
You did not hear it from me. Nudge, Nudge, wink wink. Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
Why do I expect this to be the theme of a upcoming porn video?
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