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So unions are killing the twinkie. Makes me think of the movie Zombieland.
Maybe Obama will bail them out?
More union extortion brings down another company.
When will this country ever learn?
Another reason THIS administration needs to be replaced in total.....the union army of purchased voters needs to be scattered.
Hey Hostess..
move to Texas.
There are a couple of national brands pastry companies that can easily fill the void after Hostess liquidates it’s brand
Clover hill and Freshleys bakery are just two that have national presence and the ability to fill market voids ....
Tasty Kakes is another regional brand that can fill the void
The teamsters are throwing away jobs and they know it...morons all
Does anybody care? If there were ever anything that should be allowed to just disintegrate - this is it. Twinkies and all that oher junk. Ewwwwwwwww!!!
Maybe GM should give away a free carton of Twinkies™ with every Volt it sells.
If my brother and I don’t get our occasional Hostess cupcakes, we might go postal!
We do not currently buy their products but if they throw the union out we will do our best to support them.
If my brother and I don’t get our occasional Hostess cupcakes, we might go postal!
Old Twinkies never die, they just fade away...
Little Debbie is smiling.....
It’s hard to believe that with jobs as tight as they are now,that someone would rather put a company out of business than take a pay cut.
I have a problem paying guys who do this unemployment.
Hostess Union rememinds me of the Union at a local Boeing plant near by. The Union went out on strike I think nearly a year and finally won. Yep they won. Within two years the plant was shut down and the building sold. The local Union showed them who was running that company. /sarcasm
Many non-union workers have lost jobs, lost benefits, and experienced salary reductions over the last 20 years as this nation has exported jobs. One of the consequences of the choice our nation made during the early 1990’s to open its markets to “free” competition with third world countries, while those third world countries continued to pursue mercantilist trade policies, was to ensure the standard of living of the average worker in America would decline. When even $7.50 per hour US minimum wage labor competes with 10 cent per hour Chinese labor, the lower cost labor will ultimately win or the higher cost labor will lower its “price” to compete.
The US middle class has paid dearly for our 20 year infatuation with globalism and theories of free trade while other nations pursue policies that promote their own self interests. By any measure, the US standard of living has declined for the first time in our history. We can blame unions, but non union workers have experienced the same decline or worse. Ask any textile or furniture worker in a southern right to work state about lost pennons, jobs and income. Ask the few that are left if they don’t go to work every morning wondering if the company will be announcing another downsizing or offshoring of another segment of business. Unions can’t be blamed for the shuttered factories in the southeastern US.
For those convinced that union greed is the source of this nation’s economic ills, consider that in 1965 the average CEO earned 24 times the pay of the average worker. By 2005 the average CEO earned 262 times the pay of the average worker. By 2010 it was 343 times the average worker salary. It seems those at the top may be even more greedy than the union workers and much more successful in securing disproportionate increases in compensation.
Per the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2011 only 6.9% of private sector US workers were represented by a union while 37% of public sector workers belonged to unions. It is difficult to conceive unions are having a significant impact on either pay or job loss in the private sector given the low rate of union membership.
If one wants to truly look at greed it would likely be illuminating to examine the severance payments of American companies declaring bankruptcy over the past decade. How much more generous were the severance benefits given to the top 5% most highly compensated executives versus the rank and file workers?
We conservatives can dismiss Obama’s class warfare speeches. Unfortunately, there is enough underlying truth to what he says about the upper 1% that his message is resonating with large segments of the public. I know many middle age hourly workers and middle managers who have been kicked to the curb in their mid 50’s due to downsizings and offshoring of jobs. Some have taken new jobs at 30-40% lower pay than before, not to mention loss of benefits. Others are still looking and consuming their retirement savings to put food on the table. When these terminated workers see their former companies report record earnings and management bonus payouts, they blame a corrupt system and not Obama’s economic policies. From their perspective it is not fair for a company to pay out millions in bonuses to its CEO and executives when it is cutting workers and worker benefits.
We can talk all of the free market theories we want but people are going to vote on what they see and experience in their own lives. The reality in this country is the people at the top are taking a larger share of a shrinking pie. Many working people or unemployed middle class workers are beginning to listen and believe Obama’s class warfare rhetoric. I hope Mr. Romney has an better answer than union bashing when Obama starts talking about the jobs cut at companies owned by Bain Capital and the multimillions in bonuses he earned while at Bain.
I could go for a pink Snowball right now.
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We’ve always got Little Debby. By they way, I heard from a reliable source that the owner of Little Debby is/was a health nut and would eat his own product.
Twinkies under assault by Union Ho-Hos!