No offense to any union workers here but they would be idiots if they were to hire union workers. That’s how this whole thing began.
And if any union tries to organize, the new owner needs to make it clear they will shut the doors and move production to Mexico.
The old workers might sabotage the machinery. The Hostess operations seem scaled down and they will operate with fewer workers to achieve a given output. The former operation probably had all kinds of union instituted feather bedding and planned inefficiencies
Exactly! Hostess tried to come to an agreement with their unions and the unions refused. I have come to think that people who are in unions do not believe that the same realities that affect our lives should affect theirs.
I remember when everything went ker-fluey, and what did the Boeing Machinists do? They went on strike. People losing jobs left and right. People, like my hubby, whose 401K became a 201K. And, the union at Boeing decided it was a good time to strike. After that strike ended, Boeing moved part of their operations to a right-to-work state and opened a non-union plant. The union people here in the Seattle area were outraged. Honestly, what did they think was going to happen? The economy is in the tank, people are losing their jobs everywhere; but, you should get a big raise 'cause, why? You are in a union?
So, I just don't get the mind-set of these people. They seem to be at war with the people who hire them, and they always believe they are worth more money, even if the world around them is crumbling.
“That’s not the way we did it before.... you’re doing it wrong.”
When hiring, previous experience is disqualification. The Union boss is hoping to get some of his people inside to cause trouble and disrupt.