Posted on 04/27/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) issued a statement today, responding to the sale of the iconic Twinkies brand.
In response to Metropoulos & Co. CEO C. Dean Metropoulos' statement to The Wall Street Journal that the company will not hire union workers when reopening four former Hostess Brands bakeries, BCTGM International President David B. Durkee issued the following statement on behalf of all BCTGM members:
The BCTGM is pleased to see that Hostess Brands LLC, the newly formed snack cake company created by Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co, has announced that it will be reopening four Hostess bakeries to produce the iconic Hostess cake brands. Those four successful cake plants were represented by the BCTGM for many years under former Hostess ownership.
However, we are extremely disappointed to see negative statements from company executives about the union status of its future employees. Ideally, we would like to see as many of our members hired as possible. We believe their combination of experience, dedication and know-how will give the new owners the chance to get high quality snack cakes back in the marketplace.
Federal labor law governing the hiring process and the obligations for the employer and the rights of the future employees in this situation is quite definitive. We expect that the new owners will respect the statutory rights of all workers during the hiring, startup and future of this new company.
The BCTGM remains focused on ensuring that the new Hostess Brands ownership understands that the snack cakes at the center of this new company are inextricably linked to the hands that make them—and have made them for generations. We know that our workers have a critical role to play in protecting and enhancing some of America’s most valuable consumer brands. We all want the same outcome: that the brands should prosper and endure. This is what the next stage of this saga is all about—implementing a new ownership and manufacturing structure worthy of the brands themselves and America’s manufacturing prowess.
Our members provide immense value to the new ownership with decades of experience, expertise and training. Not only have our members produced these quality products for consumers for generations, they know these bakeries inside and out. Our members are eager and willing to return to these snack plants and help usher in a new period of prosperity for Hostess snack cakes.
It is our sincere hope that the new owners will fully recognize the tremendous value of hiring back our members. If, however, they do not want us as part of the future of this company, we will continue to fight for our membership through other avenues.
Part of the unions problems are the liberal arts degreed idiots that they hire as administrators. They employ fuzzy logic and language such as representing a bakery and it becomes easy to bypass them (when government does not intervene).
GFY unions!
That's the spirit. Never work again, because you might lose your job.
Hang in there, guys...I’m sure Hell has some union shops waiting.
The Baker’s Union forced them into a strike that everyone knew would kill the company. It was about the union throwing its weight around, and the workers could go to heck.
Another 'non-productive' communist...
I want a Twinkie AND I WANT IT NOW!
Who you barkin at luv? I’m not a union guy. Wtf?
See you get my point. kcvl thinks I’m for the morons that think “equality is a right” thing.
All the big unionized companies near me have gone out of business. That tells me something. Unions at one time in the early 1900’s helped balance employment injustices. Today’s high powered union thugs are the difference in successful companies and those that fail. They are not needed in today’s society and serve no real purpose other than to steal dues from workers to fund liberal political causes.
You mean the new owners figured out that it’s not economical to pay union wages to non-productive feather-bedded loafers?
What would unionized loafer Bud, and even the non-union loafer Lou, have to say about that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKxgytQku5c
Wanna bet David B. Durkee lives in a half million dollar mansion and has a paid driver and vacations on Martha’s Vinyard?
Yo, Davy Boy, you stabbed your membership in the back. Now you sit and cry the blues!!
HEEHEEHEE,
What goes around comes around Davy Boy.
Eat **** and die, union pig.
I recall seeing something about how the former Hostess [union] employees could collect federal bennies under some foreign competition law if the Hostess filed for bankruptcy.
I didn't see any follow-up about it, but I wasn't surprised under this administration's NLRB either.
That probably helped the union continue its recalcitrant position.
Twinkies could survive a nuclear holocaust but not BCTGM, and now the union wants another chance to kill them?
Good luck with that, assholes!
I once did contract work for this bunch of thugs. The first thing they told me after we signed the contract was that we would do good work for them or they would harm us physically.
Even back then (1980s), there top brass were making mid- to upper-six figures.
Bunch of damned thieves.
I wasn’t talking about you. You just happened to be the the last post on the thread when I posted. Don’t take it so personal because I certainly didn’t mean it to be.
Hey, looky here!
You eat a boat load of Twinkies, you can go kill the heck out of someone, and GET AWAY WITH IT!!
Especially if you’re QUEER!
It’s called the “TWINKIE DEFENSE!”
For real, it is a real legal term.
FLAME ON!
Kewl < /eye roll>
-— 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? -——
It’s really tough to figure. Even if you assume that the leaders are commies, it still doesn’t make sense to commit suicide.
Hey, KCVL,
I suspect you are a thinking person who has been spoon fed the parrot head squawking points.
But somewhere along the line, your brain kicked in and now you are severely conflicted.
Have a care, those you believe your friends and allies, will become your worst enemies.
I don’t know that many here have read your posts completely and because of that have jumped to crazy conclusions.
Your point about the AFL-CIO was what caught my attention. It was a good and valid point.
Call em as you see em.
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