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Hostess says Twinkies will return to shelves July 15 with wider distribution
Star Tribune ^ | June 23, 2013 | CANDICE CHOI , AP Food Industry Writer

Posted on 06/23/2013 10:19:22 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000

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To: TaxPayer2000

a box of 10 for 3.99?? I’m loving it. I think 4 would set ya back 4 bucks before they went toes up.


61 posted on 06/23/2013 7:47:15 PM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: Aliska

There is nothing to stop them from re-unionizing down the line.


except that they can look back in history to see the outcome...


62 posted on 06/23/2013 7:49:02 PM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: cableguymn
except that they can look back in history to see the outcome...

True. That's what it said in the KS paper article. It was a back and forth as to whom was to blame.

On a brighter side, ABC has up on their front page:

Twinkies Set to Make 'Sweetest Comeback' in July

I don't remember if I bought them, think I did in the resale store, but they weren't my fav. Now I'm hungry for a couple.

But I thought maybe I'd make a rich sponge roll with seven minute frosting for filling.

I hope my APO stock rallies. I've been banking on that company to come thru for me but it's been a bumpy ride the last few weeks. There's been a huge selloff, volume and price is lower than when I bought in. I hate it when that heppens.

63 posted on 06/23/2013 8:09:14 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: TaxPayer2000

Snack to make people kill queers!!!


64 posted on 06/23/2013 8:11:31 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: BulletBobCo

“Twinkies and cockroaches...the two things that will survive a nuclear attack. “

For decades, I’ve always maintained that Little Debbie’s were the perfect bomb shelter food because they have so many chemicals and preservatives that they should last pretty much forever. If the cockroaches don’t get them first, that is.


65 posted on 06/23/2013 8:32:10 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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“Twinkies and cockroaches...the two things that will survive a nuclear attack. “

You forgot Keith Richards.

66 posted on 06/23/2013 8:32:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FreedomNotSafety

“From previous postings we learned that the baker’s union was reasonable and had approved concessions in previous contracts but the delivery drivers, who were raking in 6 figures, were the idiots”

That’s incorrect. You have it backwards. ALL the unions (including Teamsters) granted concessions EXCEPT the bakers. It was the bakers union that killed the whole deal, and in the long run, the Teamsters go royally hosed since the new owners dumped the delivery routes.

I copied the first thing google turned up about this:

“The Hostess unions thought they held a royal flush.

Mark Lennihan, The Associated Press

Twinkies first came onto the scene in 1930, but unions overplayed their hand last year and now non-union workers will produce the next version.

As it turns out, they weren’t even in the game.

After 18,500 Hostess employees lost their jobs because the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union went out on strike (the Teamsters did not want to strike) the company went into bankruptcy and shut down, as its executives had warned it would, given a labor stoppage.”


67 posted on 06/23/2013 8:38:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Sub-food for sub-humans.

G’bye Hostess!


68 posted on 06/23/2013 8:43:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: BwanaNdege

No, not 1/2 hour, 7 minutes.


69 posted on 06/23/2013 8:47:58 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Gator113
“About 15,000 unionized workers lost their jobs in the aftermath.”

Sweetest part of the story.

That's grand...15,000 more on welfare, Medicaid, food stamps...Like Walmart, the twinkie maker won't have to pay for that...You and I will...

70 posted on 06/23/2013 9:14:32 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

As with many things in life, there can be a downside.


71 posted on 06/23/2013 9:28:24 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: catnipman

No, you are wrong. The baker’s union granted concessions in the previous two contracts and cut far deeper than the Teamsters did. So for this go-around the baker’s decided to hold there ground while the Teamsters nibbled at their feather bedded $100,000+ delivery routes.

They did so because any savings they agreed to was going to be consumed by the Teamsters.

In the end the baker’s decided that any cuts on their part was futile and that they would take heir chances post bankruptcy. As you said the Teamster’s got hosed and that was the baker’s union goal.

We need a little more Union vs. Union standoffs. Why aren’t the trade unions squaring off against the unions that endorse the leftist agenda?


72 posted on 06/24/2013 7:13:36 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Gefn

Dang, they’re good. (lol trying not to think about it)


73 posted on 06/24/2013 11:16:06 AM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
CNN: November 16, 2012: Hostess Brands closing for good because of baker's strike
74 posted on 06/24/2013 2:48:56 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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So CNN sides with the Teamsters? Here is a credible source and please note the 11th paragraph:

Twinkies—A Defense, The real battle at the snack maker is union vs. union. WSJ by Jenkins

Yes the Baker's were the proverbial straw but the Teamsters and the idiot managers were the bulk of the load.

75 posted on 06/24/2013 4:08:41 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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