Manhandling Hostess, Big Labor Costs 18,500 Workers Their Jobs

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 17 Nov 2012 | Editorial

[proudpapa]

You can bet that those receiving UE won’t be paying their dues anytime soon ;^)

[antceecee]

Wow.... too much 5 hour energy drinks??? Chill.

[mware]

I’m really curious. I wonder how good those cakes would freeze?

[randog]

...the striking union, whose 5,000 members pull in as much as $22 an hour plus medical benefits, get nine weeks of paid leave and a company pension.

Nine weeks of paid leave? Wow, that's almost as much as a congressman.

[randog]

Good luck finding another job . . . ever.

To add to your point: good luck finding a job with those types of bennies. How many of these "bakers" were actually bakers in the traditional sense of the word? Probably none; they were factory workers that were trained to tend highly specialized machinery that cranked out pastry by the thousands. Their livelihoods were tied to a machine and that machine just died. Sure, if I made $22/hour with med bennies, a full pension, and 9 weeks off/year I'd think that company revolved around me too, but alas a lot of union workers are starting to realize that they were a mere cog in the machine. They can put "extensive skill operating the Hostess CF725 Twinkie Cream Filler" on their resumes, but I suspect that few potential employers will be impressed.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

I’m thinking of transferring them into hard plastic containers or just putting them in the freezer for a while to harden them and then put them in Foodsaver vacuum bags. :~)