Ding dong! Twinkies are gone! Unions Strike Again!

[Moliere]

I don't know but I would think federal law would come into play where. The National Labor relations act.

If this is correct, it will simply drive down the value of the assets. Many investors will look at this and go elsewhere to places where they aren't tied to this union. I know I would t touch it win a ten foot pole.

[myboynoah]

lol. It's Bain's fault.

GBU was onto something that you couldn't understand.

[statman]

Could part of the negotiations that take place for the purchase of the remaining assets be that the new company can hire anyone they want? Or is that going to be dictated by state laws?

The company is fully defunct. A buyer of the Hostess brand would not be bound by any union contract the now nonexistent company once had.

[RC Vikings]

The nation may have gotten just a little more healthy today.

[FMCoug]

The nation may have gotten just a little more healthy today.

Tomorrow maybe. Today appears to have been a national Hostess binge.

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[Uncle Ted]

The company is fully defunct. A buyer of the Hostess brand would not be bound by any union contract the now nonexistent company once had.

It has to suck for the 18,000+ workers that have paid the union fees all these years and were counting on their pensions for retirement. They were, indeed, let down by their union bosses. Maybe the bakers union could buy the brand names and run the company better than their former management. For some reason I don't think the union will have the balls to do this.

[TexTechCoug]

It has too suck for the 18,000+ workers that have paid the union fees all these years and were counting on their pensions for retirement. They were, indeed, let down by their union bosses. Maybe the bakers union could buy the brand names and run the company better than their former management. For some reason I don't think the union will have the balls to do this.

Interesting that the Teamsters turned on the Bakers. In the end everybody lost, I imagine thought the Baker's Union believed they would call Hostess' bluff and get something extra. In the end they found out that management wasn't bluffing and now no one will get anything.

I am sure that those 18,000 employees, including management, all woke up wishing they had steady employment in a very bad economy.

The AFL-CIO president can rant about corporate raiders, but that isn't going to put anyone back to work.

[Mormon Red Death]

I just found out hostess makes raspberry zingers. This damn tragedy affects us all.

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[Commando]

Tomorrow maybe. Today appears to have been a national Hostess binge.

Yep. I had a lemon pie and a pack of zingers. Gotta pack of Ding Dongs and a set of Orange Cupcakes in my drawer at work. I went to get a box of Twinkies at the store but the cupboard was bare.

[Viking]

Maybe this will be the Mittster's next hobby - buy up the brand names for a song, move production to Guatemala, and get the attorneys ready to battle the FDA and CDC if/when complaints arrive about food poisoning.

He could even have board meetings on Grand Cayman. Ann could go and talk with her equestrian friends about how the media ruined America and how her poor Mitt has been persecuted. Then they could fly to La Jolla and watch the sunset together and hold hands, and talk about whether they should put two security fences around the house, because those Californians who didn't support Mitt are such savages.

Seriously, in the grand scheme, we don't make horse buggy whips anymore, and the poison Hostess puts out needs to be on the trash heaps of the previous century.

Let those workers move on to making Clif bars. Probably for less money, granted, but the Hostess strike will be the last "F-you" for workers who will fall out of the middle class, but the jobs sucked anyway. After the air traffic controller strike in '81, most of the controllers who were fired didn't have regrets. That's a sad state of labor relations.

Envy is not how one becomes successful. Ask DDD.

Compete and win. Quit being a little whiny biatch.

[byu71]

Envy is not how one becomes successful. Ask DDD.

Compete and win. Quit being a little whiny biatch.

It is interesting people gripe about investors taking a "defunct" company oversea's where the labor is cheaper and is successful. The people in the foreign country benefit.

Yet we are handing out foreign aid right and left. Also if you look at the biggest charities, foundations out there, a huge chunk of the money goes to underdeveloped countries.

Why do we whine and moan about jobs going there and yet praise those who build schools, provide health care, etc.

With a few sentences in the tax code, we could make sure all that foreign aid goes to the people in need here in America.

You can't have it both ways. Bitch and moan about helping these people with jobs and then praise charity to them.

[Uncle Ted]

[FMCoug]

LOL.


http://www.politicususa.com/romney-v...ss-unions.html



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[Commando]

LOL.


http://www.politicususa.com/romney-v...ss-unions.html

Awesome. The union president is dropping Romney's name to deflect accountability.

[FMCoug]

Awesome. The union president is dropping Romney's name to deflect accountability.

I have a hardcore lefty on my FB friends list that never disappoints.