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Hostess says liquidation decision expected Friday (Going Galt)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 15, 2012 | AP

Posted on 11/15/2012 4:35:49 PM PST by Navy Patriot

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To: GeronL
“That would be the best thing for employees,” said Ron Hopkins, vice president of the AFL-CIO’s Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 103 in Orlando.

Permanent unemployment would be BEST?

Just wow.

81 posted on 11/15/2012 6:59:26 PM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: Navy Patriot

They did exactly that at Harley Davidson in York, PA when Ronaldus Magnus was POTUS. Then as the product was improved, the company.....and employees thrived, it went to their heads. And they (the union) came within a gnat’s whisker of blowing it off and having the company move elsewhere. Thankfully, the employees came to their senses before it was too late.


82 posted on 11/15/2012 7:01:37 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Navy Patriot
For the unions, let them eat Twinkies.

Alternatively, they can have bread and fish (in the street meaning of biblical times.)

83 posted on 11/15/2012 7:04:38 PM PST by stboz
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To: Navy Patriot
The jobs will come back, just not union.

Did you mean:

The jobs will come back, only they'll be in right-to-work states.

84 posted on 11/15/2012 7:05:38 PM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: GeronL
The Teamsters meanwhile are urging the smaller union to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking. Citing its financial experts who had access to the company's books, the Teamsters say that Hostess' warning of liquidation is "not an empty threat or a negotiating tactic" but a certain outcome if workers continue striking.

How do you tell when your union leadership has gone off the deep end? When the Teamsters sound like rational people.

85 posted on 11/15/2012 7:07:51 PM PST by matt04
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86 posted on 11/15/2012 7:08:59 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Navy Patriot

Good!!! Let the dingdongs starve.


87 posted on 11/15/2012 7:12:08 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Twinkie

<>TWINKIES are NOT overpriced!<>

They’re not???

http://www.amazon.com/Twinkies-Hostess-Golden-Sponge-1-5oz-Cakes/dp/B00139VS8U


88 posted on 11/15/2012 7:19:34 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: GreyFriar
Let them eat Little Debbies.

Your bad.

89 posted on 11/15/2012 7:21:36 PM PST by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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To: Navy Patriot
If nothing else, this thread has taken me for a fond trip down memory lane.

Breakfast in college was always a package of Suzi-Q's and a Mountain Dew.

90 posted on 11/15/2012 7:24:21 PM PST by brewcrew (Mr. President, we DID build that. You broke it. We'll fix it. You're fired.)
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To: libertarian27
In defense of the Teamsters ...

That union approved the court-ordered labor settlement and advised its members to go back to work. It's the 5,000-member baker's union that is not willing to sign onto the deal and is threatening the jobs of all 18,000 employees.

91 posted on 11/15/2012 7:24:53 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Theoria

Goodbye Hostess! Loved your snacks when I was a kid. I am more of the LD Oatmeal Creme Pie these days anyway.

Look for the Union Label!


92 posted on 11/15/2012 7:49:22 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: reagan_fanatic
The company promptly shut its doors for good. 60 dumbasses out of a job. Of course, the union heads are still employed.

I still recall how proud the thug union bosses were when they put Eastern Airlines out of business... "We call the shots!" The union has the power to put the company out of business... How many THOUSANDS of union workers lost their jobs back then?

Mark

93 posted on 11/15/2012 8:07:55 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Navy Patriot

Woody Harrelson is not going to be happy about this.


94 posted on 11/15/2012 8:07:58 PM PST by lurk
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To: null and void
...they'll be in right-to-work states.

Eventually, yes, in the long term only right to work states will have the possibility of permanently sustainable jobs like these.

95 posted on 11/15/2012 8:09:13 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: cableguymn

I guess I’d better grab an apple pie tomorrow. Loved those ever since I can remember.


96 posted on 11/15/2012 8:09:51 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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I rarely, if ever, buy their products simply because they are twice as much as the competing products.

How much more do these union morons think they can get for a box of these snacks?

That said, when I was a kid I musta ate a million of the Yankee Doodles. I don't think they make those anymore but I might pay a pretty penny for a box of those.

97 posted on 11/15/2012 8:12:16 PM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: GeronL
The strikers want it to shut down, they think new owners will preserve their pay nd benefits.

If the government steps in to help the union workers (as it did with GM), the new owners will preserve the pay and benefits.

Seriously.

98 posted on 11/15/2012 8:12:22 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Better to cut off your own testicles with a clean slice than have the government do it with a rusty and dull blade.


99 posted on 11/15/2012 8:12:31 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: lurk
Woody Harrelson is not going to be happy about this.

Because he thinks with his Woody, or because he is a Twinkie?

100 posted on 11/15/2012 8:12:53 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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