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BCTGM 'Extremely Disappointed' by Reports Hostess Brands Buyer Will Not Hire Union Members
AFL-CIO ^ | 4/26/2013 | Jackie Tortora

Posted on 04/27/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by mdittmar

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To: ConradofMontferrat

“Wanna bet David B. Durkee lives in a half million dollar mansion and has a paid driver and vacations on Martha’s Vinyard?”

A half a million dollar house is hardly a mansion. The median where I live is $625,000.00.

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81 posted on 04/27/2013 4:53:19 PM PDT by Mears
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To: mdittmar

I am sure Hostess would welcome back the employees -—as long as they drop their membership in the unions that destroyed their predecesser.

Getting bit by a rattlesnake does not mean they should hire that rattlesnake again.

The Union is threatening to rape this company before it even gets started.


82 posted on 04/27/2013 5:05:33 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Mears

Oh Well Golly Jeez BooBooBoo to you too! I don’t live in those UPSCALE states.

I’m just a po boy, pig farmer from the backwash of PA and live in da Burgh, half million dollar house here IS a mansion.

Just messing with you.

But, you ARE correct, in many cities 500K ain’t doodly.

And I’ll bet ol Davy Boy’s house is just right up there with the Jones’s and the Rockefeller’s and the Pelosie’s.

And dumb screw union workers will hammer the company owner who may not live as rich as their union thug boss.

You get the point.


83 posted on 04/27/2013 5:12:42 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: LibertarianLiz

Public employee unions are even far worse because the customers are forced taxpayers and management is bought and paid politicians


84 posted on 04/27/2013 5:14:19 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: ConradofMontferrat

“You get the point.”


I certainly do.

For what it’s worth we bought a 3 BR house in 1960 in the same town and paid $12,000.00,which is less than I paid for my last compact car.

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85 posted on 04/27/2013 6:10:23 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lonevoice

Thanks for the support!


86 posted on 04/27/2013 6:23:58 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Big Giant Head
If they’re TRULY worried about all these experienced bakers and other skilled workers, they’d let them get rehired as NON-union so they could regain their job.

Dollars to donuts (or sugary snack cakes), quite a few former union members will be applying as non-union. Such is the case with forced union membership operations - people join only because they have to in order to get the job. Otherwise, they'd likely have avoided union membership.

I worked in a closed-shop union outfit for 11 years. Never really liked the union or what they stood for, but I tolerated it in order to collect a reasonable paycheck.

87 posted on 04/27/2013 6:24:51 PM PDT by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

He has two house from what I have found. Don’t know what they look like though.


88 posted on 04/27/2013 6:33:08 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: kcvl

J. T. quote: “When I’m not tweeting about America’s unions... I’m on my knees, sucking up to them.”


89 posted on 04/27/2013 6:50:27 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: mdittmar

I just don’t understand. What compassionate company would balk at paying a truck-driver $135,000 a year in salary and benefits?


90 posted on 04/27/2013 6:52:58 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: mdittmar

They are where they are because of these union fools - why would they want to hire them back?


91 posted on 04/27/2013 6:59:52 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

3 Wintergarden Court
    Olney, MD 20832

Owner: DAVID B DURKEE & L S DURKEE
Total land value: $180,000
Total value for property: $382,860
Total assessed value for property: $382,860
Base area of building: 1,452 square feet
Number of stories: 2
Air conditioning: yes
Number of fireplace stacks: 1
Date of current assessment: 09/2008
Year property was built: 1992

http://www.city-data.com/montgomery-county/W/Wintergarden-Court-1.html#ixzz2RifNhuXJ


92 posted on 04/27/2013 7:02:43 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ConradofMontferrat

Durkee and his wife, Sharon, maintain a home in both Evansville and in Olney, Md


93 posted on 04/27/2013 7:05:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ConradofMontferrat

http://www.bctrustfunds.org/images/2011_SUMMARY_ANNUAL_REPORT_health_benefits_.pdf


94 posted on 04/27/2013 7:14:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: mdittmar

When they are available again, I may just have to start buying a package a week, though I would have to give them to the local food pantry, since I need to start limiting my sweet intake. I’d do this to help the company keep going and continue to be free . . .


95 posted on 04/27/2013 7:30:32 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: mdittmar

Let’s see...if I could hire non-union workers instead of union workers...doesn’t seem like a very difficult decision.


96 posted on 04/27/2013 7:58:34 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Vote Democrat. Once you're OK with killing babies the rest is easy. <BCC><)
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To: mdittmar
We believe their combination of experience, dedication and know-how

Guess they shouldn't have threatened a strike. Sort of throws "dedication" right out the window.

97 posted on 04/28/2013 3:00:01 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Maybe they can eat some Twinkies - it might make them feel better to have a little comfort food.


98 posted on 04/28/2013 5:24:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mdittmar
The new Hostess is firing up plants in Columbus, Ga.; Emporia, Kan.; Schiller Park, Ill.; and Indianapolis, Ind. It's also considering whether to reopen a fifth plant it purchased, in Los Angeles. (from a different article)

so 3 of the 5 are in right to work states...they should move the Ill plant and forget about the Los Angeles plant altogether....or perhaps move the equipment to NV or AZ.

99 posted on 04/28/2013 5:48:13 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: kcvl

LOL right you are.


100 posted on 04/29/2013 4:05:44 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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