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The Demise Of The Twinkie: Hostess Files Motion To Liquidate
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 11/16/2012 5:13:37 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver

What ever happened to strike breaking?


241 posted on 11/16/2012 11:09:04 AM PST by Advil000
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To: Cuttnhorse
How will I survive without my Hostess fruit pie in the early morning?

If there's an Aldi store in your area, their fruit pies are fantastic.

242 posted on 11/16/2012 11:17:18 AM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: ken5050

Not quite..it’s the board of the Baker’s Union that authorized the strike..there was NO strike vote taken..The Teamster’s Union wants the Bakers Union to hold a ..get this..SECRET BALLOT vote to see if they want to return to work..


Unbelievable...... The corruption, and stupidity continues to amaze me.


243 posted on 11/16/2012 11:24:06 AM PST by patriotspride
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To: Sub-Driver

Unions destroy yet another viable business. EFFERS!


244 posted on 11/16/2012 11:33:17 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: crosshairs

You mean “Ho Ho” don’t you.


245 posted on 11/16/2012 11:44:01 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hostess shutdown, boxes of Twinkies, Ho Hos going for $100 and more on eBay


246 posted on 11/16/2012 11:47:48 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: Sub-Driver

Check this out:

we petition the obama administration to:
Nationalize the Twinkie industry

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/nationalize-twinkie-industry/cJz0ngJR

Hmmm... Will this be another Obama TakeOver?


247 posted on 11/16/2012 11:48:08 AM PST by tsowellfan (Allen West for Speaker!)
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To: Hoodat

Eastern Airlines? No such thing. haha


248 posted on 11/16/2012 11:51:00 AM PST by DBrow
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To: PAR35

Build 3 brand new facilities in North Texas, East Texas and West Texas. Create new logistics. Ship product from there.

If the unions do not allow the products in the state, too bad.


249 posted on 11/16/2012 12:00:34 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (George W. Bush is the Emmanuel Goldsten of the modern era.)
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To: pepsi_junkie
"I wonder how many of them will have to let people go now too? All because one union decided it would rather destroy the company than work with them."

Nothing unusual. GM was sole sourcing their break linings from a plant in Flint MI. Flint had GM and Delphi left. The UAW decided to put the screws to GM over some BS stamping equipment issue and chose the Flint plant to do it. They shut down most of GM and their suppliers for a long time, GM finally caved, then eventually shut down the few plants left. If you think Detroit is a hell hole, take a drive through Flint (I'd recommend body armor).

250 posted on 11/16/2012 12:07:22 PM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas, you union bastids.


251 posted on 11/16/2012 12:17:27 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: from occupied ga
As long as you pay people to do nothing, that's what they're going to do.

My first paying job, working for a contractor building a house one summer, I asked the boss why the carpenters, roofers, electricians and the high paying workers bitched so much about their jobs, when my buddy and I, both high schoolers working a summer job, were happy as clams doing a job we were getting paid for, even though we were doing all the grunt work.

He told me that the better a person had it, the more they bitched and the more they expected extra benefits. He said, and I believe this to be true, that if you paid a man to come to work every day and just sit under a shade tree and drink beer eventually the guy would start bitching because he had a tree at home he could sit under so why did he have to come all the way to the job to sit under their tree.

This points out the mentality of the entitlement class, the world owes them a living and a good deal more.

252 posted on 11/16/2012 12:17:51 PM PST by calex59
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To: DBrow
Eastern used to be a big airline. Unions killed it. Frank Borman actually offered to sell the company to the unions. The unions balked, and then proceeded to completely destroy the company from within. The union pilots who had just accepted a new contract decided to violate that newly-signed contract by going on strike to support another union. The airlines went belly up shortly afterwards.

253 posted on 11/16/2012 12:23:16 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Hoodat

Interesting picture, I never knew Eastern flew 747’s. I flew Eastern a lot in the late 70’s and early 80’s and flew on L1011’s. I never saw an Eastern 747, I didn’t think they had many routes that were long flights.


254 posted on 11/16/2012 12:32:31 PM PST by Fair Paul
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To: Sub-Driver
I actually know a buddy of mine who's just addicted to Twinkies, unbelievable...
255 posted on 11/16/2012 12:42:34 PM PST by Toddcc
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To: sickoflibs
The union rejected the court's bankruptcy decision to let Hostess cut salaries to save the plant and the union went on strike to close their own plant and kill all their own jobs.

Hahahahaha. Now the union guys will have no turkey on Thanksgiving and no toys for their kids this Christmas. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Ignorant goofballs!

256 posted on 11/16/2012 12:43:21 PM PST by Mr Apple ( ignorant obama union voters---now you reap your meager rewards)
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To: Hoodat

Hoodat, thanks. I was making a joke- no more eastern!


257 posted on 11/16/2012 1:11:16 PM PST by DBrow
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To: Sub-Driver

I cleaned out a local store today of Twinkies and Ho Ho’s. The next Cabbage Patch craze? lol


258 posted on 11/16/2012 1:14:26 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: Cuttnhorse

Stock up...isn’t the shelf life around 200 years? lol


259 posted on 11/16/2012 1:16:12 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: Spktyr

I agree. And they will be whining on TV and about how broke they are.

Ever notice that no matter how high the unions force up wages and benefits, you lay them off for a couple of weeks and they are all broke?

At $25-30 an hour you’d think they’d learn the concept of saving.

Oh wait, they are stupid unionized Democrats.


260 posted on 11/16/2012 1:19:08 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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