The Hostess story has it all. The Americana of those plastic-wrapped, sickly sugary snacks; a nationally moderated blame game between the company and the union, and a workforce that isn't quite ready to give up.
The already troubled company declared bankruptcy after a protracted fight with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union. The union said, and several news stories agreed, that it was mismanagement from the top that led to the bankruptcy.
The company's narrative was that the union refused to take concessions, leaving more than 18,000 people without their jobs. Some commentators characterized the union's stance as "a false sense of pride."
I still say the who ever buys Hostess should reopen the factory and hire all the employees back for $1 more than they make on unemployment. They have to take the job or they lose their unemployment.
ReplyDeleteManagement will still get their bonuses ...
ReplyDeleteIf you hire them back,they will get the union back.
ReplyDeletekeep it closed and let the 18000 people eat out of a dumpster!!!
ReplyDeletethis is what unions do and yet Obama made it in to office on the backs of unions and union workers, many that have lost jobs in the last four years. no sympathy for any of them, they got what the wanted, or did they?
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