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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

Several former workers at a Hostess Brands plant in Rocky Mount said Friday they were relieved after the company filed for bankruptcy, seeking to close its operations.

The closings will mean the loss of about 18,500 jobs overall.

“They’ve been holding this over our head for a long time and now it’s here,” said Lamont Phillips, an oven operator and the president of the local union. “They had to do it.

“I don’t have to deal with that anymore. The things that they were trying to do to us, it wasn’t fair.

“They always hold that over our heads, that they’ll close it down. So, I’m like, ‘OK. Close it down.’”

And on Friday, Hostess did. The flag at a Hostess plant in Rocky Mount hung at half staff on Friday afternoon, and many former workers there hung around outside to talk about what had happened.

Hostess had offered an 8 percent pay cut, but Phllips said that wasn’t going to work for the employees.

“We’re not making a whole lot of money out here and then we got to take a pay cut like that. Then you got your health benefits going up,” he said. “They stopped paying into the pension fund. ….

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epicfail; jobs; karma; layoffs; losers; northcarolina; obama; obamacare
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To: Rebelbase

“HA! About half of those simply hired.com job postings are duplicates for “oven operator” and a lot of them are for “oven helper”.”

They could go work at McDonald’s and be a Hamburger Helper.


101 posted on 11/16/2012 3:24:21 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: funfan

“Instead 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?”

Because I don’t care enough one way or the other to research it. Everybody else on this thread seemed to be speculating wildly in favor of the poor abused Hostess company. I just thought a little balance was called for.

Probably the labor force sucked. Probably management sucked just as much.
Paying the work force is part of doing business, if they can’t do that and still stay open....well the market has spoken huh?


102 posted on 11/16/2012 3:24:46 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: The Duke
In other news, former Hostess employees today were awarded 18,500 Darwin Awards.

Not 18,500, just 5,000. There were half a dozen unions who had already accepted the deal, the Bakers were holding out.

Klew: If the Teamsters looks at the situation and agrees to a pay cut, maybe your strike is a kamikaze.

103 posted on 11/16/2012 3:24:52 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend)
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To: snarkybob

Hey SNARKY.... Explain why the Teamsters told the Bakers to take it?

Take your time as you gather your thoughts.


104 posted on 11/16/2012 3:27:22 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: tobyhill
“We’re not making a whole lot of money out here and then we got to take a pay cut like that. Then you got your health benefits going up,” he said."

Health costs going up? Now why would that be?


105 posted on 11/16/2012 3:28:25 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: tobyhill

Oh no!

It is almost Chrismas, and now we will have no Hostess HO Hos!

Mabye the Union hacks who lost their jobs will get Christmas HO HOs from Santa Bama. Or maybe just Christmas Hos. “Swipe my EBT, Ho.”


106 posted on 11/16/2012 3:28:48 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Pray to God. Apologize to your children.)
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To: snarkybob

One more thing, under UNION RULES Twinkies and Wonder Bread could NOT be delivered by the same route!!

Take your time as you gather your thoughts!!


107 posted on 11/16/2012 3:30:00 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: eyedigress

“Hey SNARKY.... Explain why the Teamsters told the Bakers to take it?
Take your time as you gather your thoughts.”

I already said I didn’t research it...but...if I had to guess why, Id say the Teamsters got a better bribe than the bakers. Or possibly the teamster boss got a better kickback.


108 posted on 11/16/2012 3:30:32 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: eyedigress
Explain why the Teamsters told the Bakers to take it?

Clearly, they're part of the EEEEEEeeeeevil, repressive anti-worker conspiracy. Duh.

Seriously. You're drilling a dry well, here. You do know that, right...? ;)

109 posted on 11/16/2012 3:32:43 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: mvpel
Ten percent of nothing is—let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin'. Carry the nothin'...

You and Jethro Bodine are learnin' to cipher real good. Wahoo!

110 posted on 11/16/2012 3:33:10 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: tobyhill

North Carolina needs to make sure these economic terrorists do NOT get unemployment benefits for destroying a company and thousands of jobs.


111 posted on 11/16/2012 3:34:45 PM PST by montag813
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To: eyedigress

“One more thing, under UNION RULES Twinkies and Wonder Bread could NOT be delivered by the same route!!
Take your time as you gather your thoughts!!”

So the Teamsters did get a better bribe with double the routes. That’s probably why they urged the bakers to take a paycut huh?


112 posted on 11/16/2012 3:34:54 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: snarkybob

No, my misinformed one. The teamsters saw the books and the company was not viable. Chapter 13 was inevitable.

The idiots are the bakers that caused 18,900 direct and untold thousands indirect job losses.

Good luck getting a job at Little Debbie.


113 posted on 11/16/2012 3:39:14 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: tobyhill

I have never seen the actual numbers but I understand unemployment compensation plus other benefits that go with it would exceed what they are making. My same source said Massachusetts pays the most - anyone have a link to the amounts, state by state?


114 posted on 11/16/2012 3:39:37 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: tobyhill

I sure hope that none of Lamont’s 18,000 fellow *former* employees track him down and administer some severe revolutionary justice.That would break my ******* heart.


115 posted on 11/16/2012 3:40:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: snarkybob

These rules have been in place for many years. You are a very young Robert.


116 posted on 11/16/2012 3:40:58 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: tobyhill

“”Then you got your health benefits going up,” he said.””

Hmmm - wouldn’t that be a good thing? Who wouldn’t want their BENEFITS to go up?


117 posted on 11/16/2012 3:41:39 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: tobyhill

I am suprised in a way. The Teamsters agreed to the deal. In the old days, the Teamsters would have cracked a few heads to get the others on board.


118 posted on 11/16/2012 3:45:01 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

indeed. your state makes me want to look in to the costs of moving my house about 45 miles east of here.


119 posted on 11/16/2012 3:45:38 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: eyedigress

“No, my misinformed one. The teamsters saw the books and the company was not viable. Chapter 13 was inevitable.”

So the Teamsters let the Wonder Bread and the Twinkies go on the same route then?
You just said they didn’t.
Let me reiterate, I don’t care....at all. I don’t eat Twinkies and I don’t Live in Rocky Mount.

I just thought the thread needed some balance to the evil union blessed management posts.


120 posted on 11/16/2012 3:45:47 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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