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Hey glenn, let me put it to you in terms you would understand.
You have an over-weight trailer that has to go to Fargo Nd. and the tires are pretty worn, some are showing gouges in the sides, and your tractor tires aren't that much better. You know it's going to be an overnighter but in this weather, it's not going to be the greatest knowing that the heater core in the cab sprang a leak in the summer so it was your quick fix to just by-pass it back then, but now it's going to be a very cold drive. The starter has been acting up lately as well, having to jump out of the cab to start it by smacking it with a hammer a few times to turn over.... etc. You give it an old college try to get the delivery done and get back to turn it in the garage to get the fixes needed for the next run... only to find out you have to make yet another trip to Montana.

That's what these bakeries have turned to under this management. The infrastructure has been eroded, some of the newer equipment had failed and was shut down and moved out of the way for the aged old back-ups to run to get the job done. Ovens shutting down prematurely, and the workforce swears the equipment was sabotaged but they can't prove it other than they could show that it has been malfunctioning, and no service tech. staff to make the repairs... many were laid off a while ago.

The Boss's got their raises, but the working staff were told they were going to have to pay more for their health care, lose vacation time (which they use for sick time as well) and they were going to get a serious reduction of pay to boot.

The straw that broke the camel's back.

Your trolling attitude really stinks all through this thread, and it shows how much of a loser you really are.

No.

It's pretty easy to see what's happening. The threat to close down was a bluff, and the union called their bluff. Now the company has begged for mediation.

And, luckily, a smart company may be coming to bail the idiots who run Hostess out. You can bet this - while the workforce stays, the idiots who ran the company will be out of a job.

GoU

Now we have mwingman saying that Bain Capital is a bunch of scoundrels, how good does that get?

Now we have mwingman saying that Bain Capital is a bunch of scoundrels, how good does that get?

Ummm ... it was the bankruptcy judge that called for the mediation. Hostess had not talked to the baker's union since August.

It IS quite funny. But when anyone, even a rightie, says that a union is right, wingman must immediately attack them.

GoU

Ya'll wanna hear something REALLY funny? A few posts ago, wingman said this:

What do you think they are going to do? Offer more money and benefits to the unions? Give them seats on the board? Sit down with them and ask them how they should run their business?

Well, guess what? The deal that the company negotiated, that the Teamsters accepted but the Bakers turned down, GAVE THE UNIONS TWO SEATS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!

GoU

Ya'll wanna hear something REALLY funny? A few posts ago, wingman said this:

What do you think they are going to do? Offer more money and benefits to the unions? Give them seats on the board? Sit down with them and ask them how they should run their business?

Well, guess what? The deal that the company negotiated, that the Teamsters accepted but the Bakers turned down, GAVE THE UNIONS TWO SEATS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!

GoU

So the Teamsters are part of the incompetent management team you were complaining about. Well I guess you burned me.

How many seats does the Baker union have?

Why would someone born in Hawaii have a CT SSI number?

Don't argue with twinkles.

Hostess Brands is closed.

We are sorry to announce that Hostess Brands, Inc. has been forced by a Bakers Union strike to shut down all operations and sell all company assets. For more information, go to hostessbrands.info. Thank you for all of your loyalty and support over the years.

Just went to Hostess site and guess what the first info you find on the site is?



No accountability there...no siree. It was the damned union workers' fault.

The vulture capitalists will Romney the pieces, selling them off as marketable brand names. Presumably the wretched products will continue, only with even more toxic ingredients, as made by non-union labor making even less in the way of wages, and with practically no real benefits whatsoever.

The only losers are the 18,500 workers, who are casualties of a classic scenario of mismanagement, self-aggrandizement, and then playing brinkmanship to bust the unions. The unions always lose these brinkmanship games, because if the company does go over into the void, the fat cats win anyway.

Remember that I was NOT an anti-capitalist until only a few years back, when it became clear what was going on, and that the stuff they say in elementary school about making better widgets was now folklore. I see no reason to believe it now either. The only thing they're interested in selling is companies, which are the new widgets. The old widgets are just there to get consumers interested in the company so it will pull a better price when the robber barons eat it.