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Twinkies Maker Will Close After Strike
ABC News ^
| 16 November 2012
| JEANETTE TORRES and BILL McGUIRE
Posted on 11/16/2012 4:34:48 AM PST by RabidBartender
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To: a real Sheila
If I heard it correctly on the radio yesterday, the real tragedy is that over 10,000 of the Hostess employees being laid off aren’t even union guys.
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:45:38 AM PST
by
RabidBartender
(If pigs could vote, they'd vote for the guy holding the slop bucket.)
To: RabidBartender
Well he got a fair contract I guess. He can ask for whatever he wants now with no repercussions from management...
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:46:52 AM PST
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: RabidBartender
I just wish they'd move to a right-to-work state. I'd bet people would move there to get a job.
(Like they did to ND to work in the oil patch and a host of spinoff jobs in just about every sector but 'union organizer'.)
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:47:10 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: RabidBartender
There are a lot of non union people that lost their jobs, but your pictures warmed my heart a little.
To: silverleaf
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bimbo Bakeries from Mexico buys up Hostess.
To: RabidBartender
So how'd that strike work out for ya, moron?
And put that cap on straight!
To: RabidBartender
I say the 10,000 need to hunt down the union thugs and deliver a good, long-deserved thumping.
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:48:06 AM PST
by
a real Sheila
(R.I.P AMERICA 1776 - 2012)
To: RabidBartender
Great job, union. 18,000 of your members out of work now but at least you showed them! And they all think its the company’s fault.
To: Vince Ferrer
Yeah, I get a little schadenfreude in the morning sometimes.
"SOLIDARITY....SOLIDARI.....wait, Hostess did what this morning?"
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:50:48 AM PST
by
RabidBartender
(If pigs could vote, they'd vote for the guy holding the slop bucket.)
To: RabidBartender
Twinkie the Kid, gut-shot by the local bakers' union and left alongside the road to die.
He'll have his revenge, though... and right soon. Too bad the union bosses won't feel his wrath.
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:51:25 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: RabidBartender
My understanding is that 5,000 of the 18,000 employees are members of this bakers' union. The Teamsters -- who ratified the new labor agreement -- also represent a number of other employees, but I'm not sure of the exact number.
Lessons learned here, folks: (1) don't ever vote to allow a union to represent you, and (2) if you work for a company with a lot of union members in critical positions, look for a job elsewhere.
I'm not even suggesting that unions are all bad here, but there's no getting around the fact that a worker loses a lot of control over his/her future when a union is involved -- even if they don't belong to the union.
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:51:50 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
To: RabidBartender
"At least I got a snazzy little orange vest out of this!"
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:54:44 AM PST
by
RabidBartender
(If pigs could vote, they'd vote for the guy holding the slop bucket.)
To: NewsJunqui
better than some Chinese bakery making twinkies out of reprocessed human hair and dog fat
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:55:10 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: Smokin' Joe
Most of their employees work in plants...you just can’t move a facility to a nkn work state....they have 20 plus bakery plants across the country
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:55:54 AM PST
by
Popman
To: RabidBartender
I hope these losers are getting all kinds of warm fuzzies from their perverted camaradarie now. It’s gonna be a long, cold winter and faux warm fuzzies is all they’ll have. How stupid are they — in this economy? Their union bosses are pointing and laughing at them. They don’t see the strikers as people, but tools (in every sense of the word) to further their commie cause and inflate the bosses’ bank accounts. Pathetic.
To: RabidBartender
guess that twinkie in Wall-E was REALLY old!!
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:57:00 AM PST
by
MomwithHope
(Buy and read Ameritopia by Mark Levin!)
To: RabidBartender
You peel off the coconut layer and eat the little cake first.
Thanks to the union, an entire new generation of stoners
will not be able to do this.
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:57:03 AM PST
by
greedo
To: OrioleFan
I saw a crawler on FOX or CNBC this morning where some union nutjub said the employees would be better off on unemployment.
That's a popular conclusion. It is short sighted, but popular.
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:57:12 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We deserve the government we allow.)
To: RabidBartender
Tallahassee: [
discovers Hostess truck filled with Sno-Balls] Sno-Balls?
Sno-Balls? SNO-BALLS? Where's the @#$%ing
Twinkies -- ?!?
Columbus: I love Sno-Balls.
Tallahassee: I hate coconut. Not the taste, consistency.
Columbus: [eats a Sno-Ball] Fresh.
Tallahassee: [grimly] Oh, this Twinkie thing. It ain't over yet.
-- Zombieland (2009)
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:57:52 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
To: Charles Martel
Last night, I was at the store. Just out of curiosity, I went to thr bakery aisle. All the Twinkies...GONE. I guess people figured “Never gonna see ‘em again, might as well get my last box”.
Heck...even Zingers are going away (even though I remember them as Dolly Madison but Hostess bought up DM years ago).
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posted on
11/16/2012 4:58:02 AM PST
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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