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Lamont Phillips, an employee, said the company had been, “holding this over our head for a long time,” and he was relieved he did not “have to deal with that anymore.”

The author missed the rest of the sentence as reported in other publications.

"“They’ve been holding this over our head for a long time and now it’s here,” said Lamont Phillips, an oven operator and the president of the local union."

Former Hostess workers in Rocky Mount 'relieved' at plant closing"

Of course the union president doesn't care. He's still on the mafia payroll.

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>>Lamont Phillips, an oven operator and the president of the local union.”

Ah, now that makes perfect sense. He’ll still get his union $$$ and the other workers can just go pound sand.