[RabidBartender]

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.

[a real Sheila]

I say the 10,000 need to hunt down the union thugs and deliver a good, long-deserved thumping.

[Alberta's Child]

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.