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Originally Posted by Shimpy
According to the news the reason Hostess is going out of business is because the union is on strike and refuses to go back to work. In todays economy and jobless situation it is unbelievable to me that someone would be on strike when they should be thanking their lucky stars that they even have a job. Now those employees who could have been working won't be and I have no sympathy for them. I do have symphony for those that belong to the union and disagree with striking but wouldn't dare say so or could be physically harmed.
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I don't understand the union leaderships sort of thinking at all. It makes no sense. If I understand the story correctly, the Teamsters had agreed to whatever deal had been offered, but the Baker's union was the group that dug in their heels. It's not like Hostess was making loads of money, they were bankrupt for pete's sake! We're not talking about downtrodden people slaving in coal mines in the 1800's here. Their give-backs would still have allowed them to do better than many people are doing. What a strange & sad outcome.
The bad part of this is that the vast bulk of the workers will have very little luck in getting the kind of jobs at the pay they were used to. While I'm certain that Hostess will sell off it's brand names to other baking companies, while those companies might add a few jobs to their roster, it won't even come close to hiring the number of people who now have no job.