[JoeFromSidney]

A buyer is most likely to buy the name and trademark, and produce the stuff in their own plants, rather than buy the Hostess company's plants and machinery. Let's hope they move the production to "right to work" states.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

[fhayek]

Yup. The first thing I would want, after sinking millions into a business investment, would be to hire union workers to staff my operation.

[Red Badger]

The products will still be made, but under new owners in their facilities. They would be insane to hire you scumbags......

[COBOL2Java]

Hopefully the non-union workers will be re-hired. As for the union drones, well, they can get a job, too. Let them get at the end of the line.

[Mr. K]

And I hope the buyers bring them back at half their original pay

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,,, I hope these greedy b@$+@rd$ lose their homes , cars and everything dear to them as many non-union folks have already lost . They ,, unlike many non-union folks still had a job to go to whereas those non-union folks would have easily given up 8% of their wages in order to just keep their jobs , homes , cars etc. .

Some of these union thugs are bragging now on how they closed down Hostess . Let them eat cake now .

[tumblindice]

"Feed the drivers, shoot the bakers."

[Baynative]

Mexiso believes in collective bargaining, uh huh.

[vpintheak]

Hopey for changey ended up in outof joby.

[C210N]

This would have been preferable to the GM/Chrysler bailout. As long as Chapter-11 (or whatever number it is) is not an option, this Twinkie example is the next best path. What happened with GM/Chrysler is akin to a buyer coming in to take over twinkie, and KEEP all the inefficient unions in non-right-to-work states.

[GeronL]

Someone will definitely by the brsnds, but who in their right mind would hire those guys?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2960918/posts

A Labor Victory Over Hostess (satire)

[Triple]

I think the unions that are on strike should buy the company or plants. Let them become an employee owned operation, if current ownership wants to liquidate.

It would be interesting to see union bosses setting policy for the company.

[Da Coyote]

Were I to be a potential investor, the first question on my checklist is: “Are you planning to rehire ANY union member that voted to strike?”

If yes, I’d tell them to shove it up their smelly union Obamas.

[Iron Munro]

Industrial grade insanity is at work here.

Can you see an astute investor saying:

“Lets buy the Hostess bakery so we can provide employment to the intransigent union workers who drove the original owners into bankruptcy and forced the company to close the business down.”

[Mamzelle]

State?

[ScottinVA]

Why, so your union can poison THAT operation, too??

Uhh, no.

Typical union thinking... “So, what day are the jobs coming back?”

[novascotianative]

Cue Phyllis Diller laughing.

[Cheerio]

But now those that are out of work, including nearly 200 in Jacksonville, are hoping that someone will buy the popular Hostess products and reproduce them, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The company liquidated and the union contract has been nullified. IMHO any rehiring of these folk will be on a non-union basis. This is what should have happened to Government Motors, only they would have filed a Chapter 11 reorganization not a Chapter 7 liquidation. After coming out of bankruptcy GM would have shed itself of it's unaffordable union pensions and health care liabilities which had been agreed to without proper planning for the future business model. These handsome benefits were awarded by the big three auto companies under duress when their management sat across the table from the all powerful unions which continuously selected which of the three companies they were going to shut down in each of the union negotiating cycles, which I believe were staggered throughout the decades.

Hardly anyone else in the country has access to these type of benefits mostly paid for by the corporation.

Zero bought off his union buddies at GM but turned his back on the Twinkie Union. He no longer cares since the foolish American sheeple have already made him king for almost a decade. BUCKLE UP FOLKS IT AIN'T GONNA END PRETTY.

[Polyxene]

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7