Posted on 05/23/2015 7:30:03 AM PDT by rktman
Because it received no national press coverage despite affecting workers in 48 states, very few people know that the Department of Labor decided after Hostess's implosion that the company's 18,000 affected workers would be eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
That's supposed to happen when workers lose their jobs because of imports, not because they walked away from their jobs and took their employer down with them. At the time, I estimated the taxpayer costs involved at about $800 million. A February 2012 Investor's Business Daily editorial accurately described the government's decision as "a reward for those who refuse to negotiate, and a sop to the manipulative unions that are most adept at gaming the system. ... It's corruption."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
You’ve got to go almost to the end of the article to get the moral of the story, but it’s so well-stated and so spot-on it needs repeating:
“Perhaps because the new Hostess’s runaway success demonstrates what could have been accomplished if two other companies in a heavily unionized industry had been allowed to go through legitimate bankruptcies in 2009.
Instead, General Motors and Chrysler went through sham “bankruptcies” where the government deliberately picked winners and screwed the losers, blatantly violating centuries of common law and contract law in the process.”
Good on you. Some things need specialization and some things are in the category of knowing your limitations. If I had any doubt about something I was considering taking on, I’d double check with someone who knew. Hope you maintain your career and sock everything you can away to get to retirement. We ain’t livin’ large but we’re pretty darn comfy. And a whole lot better off than my buds who are existing on union pensions.
If the DING-DONGS don’t get in the way of the HO-HO’s, then we can each grab a CUP CAKE.
LOL! Looks like we sent a bunch of ding-dongs and ho-ho’s to DC. See how much better things are now? :>}
Your post brought back memories of when I was an electrician’s helper in a chemical plant. One day me and another guy had worked about 30 hours straight so we were sent out on a “make do” job to check the contacts on motor starters. As you know you can tell when it’s engaged because the solenoid indicator is recessed. My buddy told me to reach in and feel the contacts and see if they were pitted. I started to reach in then saw it was engaged. I said “Jim? Isn’t this running?”
He freaked and threw the breaker and shut down half the plant. Then he said “We’re too tired. Let’s go home.”
Not long after that I found out it was a lot easier selling that equipment than it was working on it. And the pay was a lot better.
Two cup cakes per ho ho.
Exactly!!!! Suzie-qs were all i ever got!!
I used to get them instead of a birthday cake. It’s what I wanted, candles and all ....
You’ve been a long Time patron of Hooter’s, Huh?
Michelle FLOTUS will soon lead a column of Federal marshals in to shut down the Hostess plant. All that sugar, transfat & high fructose corn syrup!
You can’t have those things, comrades; you must surrender them to the state.
That’s one TOO BIG Ding-Dong.
>>He freaked and threw the breaker and shut down half the plant. Then he said “We’re too tired. Let’s go home.”
Been there. Done that! I almost touched the primary terminals of a control transformer due to extreme fatigue.
I stuck with it because I am very skilled technician and a horrible salesman. But I learned a lesson there that people will literally work themselves to death for OT, so I keep an eye on my people now and enforce rest period rules.
That’s all fine and dandy, but does the Hostess Company have to relinquish the recipe for the products that were manufactured? If not then it is not going to be the same taste and texture as the former products.
>>That’s all fine and dandy, but does the Hostess Company have to relinquish the recipe for the products that were manufactured? If not then it is not going to be the same taste and texture as the former products.
I thought they sold the recipe as part of their corporate temper tantrum against their employees.
Yep, OT was our motivation. We had reached double time at 8 o’clock the previous night. I, too, had my left hand on the cabinet and I would have gotten two phases of a 440 circuit. Lucky to be alive, I guess.
I never wanted to be a salesman but once I got the job I was good at it because I knew what I was selling thanks to all the work as a maintenance AND construction electrician. I worked in the wholesale electric supply business for 8 years then started selling houses.
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