Comments on: Union Twinkies

By: mostly cajun

mostly cajun — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:45:53 +0000

“Can’t afford snacks”? Really? I wish I had a dollar for every time I watched an EBT card get swiped for a basket full of snack food and instant this and pre-cooked that while I know that the same money you pay for a pack of Twinkies will get you enough dried beans to feed a family of four.

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By: sarge712

sarge712 — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:17:47 +0000

We’ve always bought Little Debbies anyway. Its a Southern thang.

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By: Steve S

Steve S — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:03:28 +0000

Apparently they had taken something like a 15-20% cut a few years ago. I am not saying the union is blameless, but that there may be more to this situation than just their idiocy.

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By: Gene

Gene — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:40:42 +0000

Last week I was having a discussion with an acquaintance about the Federal Gov. in general. My stand was, the Federal Government has to be smaller. It should be focused on providing for our national defense, and dealing with US interests overseas and with international issues. The Feds should be looking outward, not inward. The States should be taking a bigger role in managing their own affairs, rather than staying on the Federal money tit. Health care, disaster management, HHS, etc. should not be the raole of the USG. The USG has managed to get control over a huge area of daily life for Americans through exploitation of interstate commerce laws, and exploiting the greed of local politicians that will sell their souls for some federal money.

This country needs a big, huge button labelled “RESET”. We are doomed.

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By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:10:23 +0000

Noooooooooo!

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By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:37:53 +0000

So the patient clearly has health problems, was a glutton and a hard drinker, and this ex-employee didn’t want to blame the metastasized cancer that killed the patient, but the potential heart attack that might have happened sometime?

Sure, there were different potential ways the company could have folded, but the actual cause was the union strike.

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By: UtahLibertarian

UtahLibertarian — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:31:33 +0000

It’s Romney’s fault because he lost. If he had won and granted waivers to all 50 states (or repealed) Obamacare, Hostess might have survived.

Ok, that’s probably not the teamster position (I didn’t read the original article), but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:06:01 +0000

Dolly Madison is a Hostess brand so that means they are shut down as well.

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By: massimo7

massimo7 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:52:29 +0000

sounds like you could substitue goverment employes for hostess employes and congress/white house for hostess co. and get a good idea where we are headed.

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By: toadold

toadold — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:46:21 +0000

They’ve had a couple of posts over at ZeroHedge.com on this. To over simplify, the company got bailed in return for equity in a prior bankruptcy by a guy who had connections with the Teamsters. Then he got a couple of other companies that do distressed businesses bail outs to come in for equity stakes. So you ended up with a nice complex four way fluster cluck. Teamsters (Daly)vs. Bakers Union (Trumka) vs three different funds one of which wanted to keep trying and the other two said enough we’ll take our loss, liquidate and we’ll get our pennies on the dollar millions, but the court puts us in front and it sucks to be you.
Meanwhile companies are moving out of closed shop state to open shop states, that is the ones that can afford to move.

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