The strikers want it to close down and liqudate. Apparently they are quite open about it.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-merita-orlando-picketers-demands-20121115,0,3198771.story
Striking workers at the Merita Bread Bakery in Orlando said Thursday they were discouraged by a light turnout of union members but hopeful that Hostess Brands Inc. would follow through with a threat to sell off its bakery operations as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings.
“That would be the best thing for employees,” said Ron Hopkins, vice president of the AFL-CIO’s Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 103 in Orlando.
“We’re not asking for a raise. We just want to maintain our pay and our pension. I make less now than when I started here,” said Hopkins, a shipping clerk who has held many other positions in 26 years at the bakery.
Yeah, what a rotten company!!! Too bad they don't have a printing press like Obama does....then you could strike for even higher benefits.
That party could go forever, right? I'm pretty mad too. My life style has been taking a beating too & I can't get one of those money machine either!!
We need 'the one' to get out his magic wand & give us everything we want, dammit!!!
Wow. It only took him 26 years to work his way up to shipping clerk! In companies that I’ve worked for, that was an entry-level job.
Permanent unemployment would be BEST?
Just wow.
That's because the union bosses are covered and the dumbasses think that a bankruptcy and liquidation would bring forward a white knight to save the company. Who in the hell would buy a union infested company like Hostess in this Obama/FDR economy and maintain the current benefit structure? Not a damn soul.