Posted on 04/27/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) issued a statement today, responding to the sale of the iconic Twinkies brand.
In response to Metropoulos & Co. CEO C. Dean Metropoulos' statement to The Wall Street Journal that the company will not hire union workers when reopening four former Hostess Brands bakeries, BCTGM International President David B. Durkee issued the following statement on behalf of all BCTGM members:
The BCTGM is pleased to see that Hostess Brands LLC, the newly formed snack cake company created by Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co, has announced that it will be reopening four Hostess bakeries to produce the iconic Hostess cake brands. Those four successful cake plants were represented by the BCTGM for many years under former Hostess ownership.
However, we are extremely disappointed to see negative statements from company executives about the union status of its future employees. Ideally, we would like to see as many of our members hired as possible. We believe their combination of experience, dedication and know-how will give the new owners the chance to get high quality snack cakes back in the marketplace.
Federal labor law governing the hiring process and the obligations for the employer and the rights of the future employees in this situation is quite definitive. We expect that the new owners will respect the statutory rights of all workers during the hiring, startup and future of this new company.
The BCTGM remains focused on ensuring that the new Hostess Brands ownership understands that the snack cakes at the center of this new company are inextricably linked to the hands that make them—and have made them for generations. We know that our workers have a critical role to play in protecting and enhancing some of America’s most valuable consumer brands. We all want the same outcome: that the brands should prosper and endure. This is what the next stage of this saga is all about—implementing a new ownership and manufacturing structure worthy of the brands themselves and America’s manufacturing prowess.
Our members provide immense value to the new ownership with decades of experience, expertise and training. Not only have our members produced these quality products for consumers for generations, they know these bakeries inside and out. Our members are eager and willing to return to these snack plants and help usher in a new period of prosperity for Hostess snack cakes.
It is our sincere hope that the new owners will fully recognize the tremendous value of hiring back our members. If, however, they do not want us as part of the future of this company, we will continue to fight for our membership through other avenues.
“Wanna bet David B. Durkee lives in a half million dollar mansion and has a paid driver and vacations on Martha’s Vinyard?”
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A half a million dollar house is hardly a mansion. The median where I live is $625,000.00.
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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.
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.
Public employee unions are even far worse because the customers are forced taxpayers and management is bought and paid politicians
“You get the point.”
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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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Thanks for the support!
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.
He has two house from what I have found. Don’t know what they look like though.
J. T. quote: “When I’m not tweeting about America’s unions... I’m on my knees, sucking up to them.”
I just don’t understand. What compassionate company would balk at paying a truck-driver $135,000 a year in salary and benefits?
They are where they are because of these union fools - why would they want to hire them back?
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
Durkee and his wife, Sharon, maintain a home in both Evansville and in Olney, Md
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 . . .
Let’s see...if I could hire non-union workers instead of union workers...doesn’t seem like a very difficult decision.
Guess they shouldn't have threatened a strike. Sort of throws "dedication" right out the window.
Maybe they can eat some Twinkies - it might make them feel better to have a little comfort food.
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.
LOL right you are.
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