Except in the mind of the Union leader ship and many members, it was all the companies fault.
Cupboard bare for many former Hostess workers looking for jobs
“It opens up, I might go back,” he said. “I’m not for sure, because what’s to say they aren’t going to do the same thing again?” Burt plans to keep looking for a job but attended the meeting to find out what assistance is available.
The meeting was organized after several states successfully petitioned the federal Department of Labor to apply provisions of the Trade Act to jobs lost nationwide through the Hostess bankruptcy. Federal officials approved that petition Feb. 19. Lindsay Anderson, Iowa’s Trade Act coordinator, said the forms laid-off workers filled out would also serve as an application for provisions of the Workforce Investment Act.
Among the services available to the workers are job search and relocation allowances, wage subsidies up to a certain income for workers 50 and older, job retraining services, a weekly income benefit, and a health coverage tax credit.