Posted on 11/12/2012 8:00:31 PM PST by chessplayer
Hostess Brands Inc. is permanently closing three bakeries following a nationwide strike by its bakers union.
The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Monday that the strike has prevented it from producing and delivering products, and it is closing bakeries in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The facilities employ 627 workers.
Thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike Nov. 9 to protest cuts to wages and benefits under a new contract offer, which the union rejected in September. Union officials say the company stopped contributing to workers' pensions last year.
Hostess has argued that workers must make concessions as it tries to improve its financial position.
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lol. Great point. Of course now the unemployed workers can stay home fire up some ganja all day and go buy the Ding Dongs and Twinkies from the store with their unemployment check. HAHAHAHA!!
They are going to be jonesen from those sugary treats. They'll have no choice but to buy when they do a munchy run.
No man you want CHEEEEEEEETOS.
Dang sounds as though you know me. lol. That would be my go to muncharama. But a few Twinkies could be torn into in the way to the car. :)
True dat paglia444! As is also the case of over half the population that voted last week in the presidential election. We can thank both educational and media brainwashing for that distortion of reality.
Yes, but half the country are morons.
Seems like having a frickin JOB would be more important than having NO job.
Enjoy unemployment union assholes, while your bosses sit their fat asses on the yachts that you paid for with your dues all these years!
I know, they must overpay the officers and shareholders!
Could have offered them free advertising at every dispensary!
Maybe there were some past frictions with the company that they feel they have to exact revenge for now. But cheese whiz, this is suicide.
Yep, they can quite easily sell or lease the rights to the name, to a completely non-union bakery that is competent enough to execute the formula for Twinkies, etc.
Exactly! Include on top of their yearly salaries—to stand around—the goons’ pensions and healthcare costs.
The choice of pedophiles everywhere! :(
Enjoy what you voted for, Washington.
Yet with all those job losses the next employment figures will barely show a “tick” one way or the other. I’m sure unexpexted if it goes up.
Well, I hope they don’t mess with those spongy little pink things with coconut on top. I love them.
First the election. Now Hostess. How much can a person take?
20% cut or 100% cut...choice is yours!
Unions have a knack for striking their workers out of a job. Way to go, unions!
On 29 June 1934, members of the United Textile Workers went on strike against the Tubize Chatillon Corporation’s rayon/artificial silk factory in Hopewell, Virginia after the company fired 440 workers for union activity. They also took part in a nationwide textile workers’ strike that began in September, but the strike failed to achieve the union’s goal of a thirty-hour week and minimum wages. In fact the Belgium company closed the whole plant and moved to South America.
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