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Union Strikes May Halt Twinkie Production
Yahoo ^ | Feb. 14th, 2012 | Sherry Tomfeld

Posted on 02/14/2012 2:03:09 PM PST by stillafreemind

Twinkie lovers may want to stock up on their golden Hostess treats. This time it is not the food police who are threatening the yummy cakes. ABC News says teamsters are making strike threats to Hostess, which is in an operational bankruptcy at the moment. If there is a union strike, production of Twinkies will cease

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hostess; strike; twinkie; unions
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To: Wingy
Unions sure know how to shoot themselves in both feet and in the a*s at the same time.

Remember Eastern Airlines?

Also the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad. The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks decided to show The Rock that they meant business... in the aftermath, any really important RI assets were snapped up in the subsequent "fire sale," the marginal branches were either abandoned or left to small outfits with low labor costs, and there were a lot of EX-railway clerks who found out that taking the company's scalp didn't put much food on the table.

Mr. niteowl77

41 posted on 02/14/2012 5:37:33 PM PST by niteowl77 (Mitt Romney: the horse the GOP intends to ride into the abyss. Or is it the other way around?)
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To: stillafreemind

Whew! Just in time to save Jerrold Nadler!


42 posted on 02/14/2012 5:38:20 PM PST by longhorn too
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