BCTGM 'Extremely Disappointed' by Reports Hostess Brands Buyer Will Not Hire Union Members

AFL-CIO ^ | 4/26/2013 | Jackie Tortora

[mdittmar]

Looking forward to those raspberry filled donuts again;)

[JRandomFreeper]

Awww.... Should have thought of your jobs earlier, zipperheads.

/johnny

[tsowellfan]

No offense to any union workers here but they would be idiots if they were to hire union workers. That’s how this whole thing began.

[Jack Hammer]

Mewling Marxists.

Boo hoo.

[poobear]

What did they think? Run them out of business twice? Morons! Idiots! But I digress.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

And if any union tries to organize, the new owner needs to make it clear they will shut the doors and move production to Mexico.

[Gay State Conservative]

“Extremely disappointed”,I’ll wager,means that their members plan to engage in massive sabotage but have no immediate plans to commit murder or arson.

[bigfootbob]

Watch, the “New Hostess” will soon join Wal-Mart as one of the left’s most hated businesses. Funny too, most folks who I see at Wal-Mart are typical democrat voters.

[kcvl]

” Those four successful cake plants were represented by the BCTGM for many years under former Hostess ownership.”

They went bankrupt because of your representation!

[GeronL]

This is great news. They would be stupid to hire the same idiots that shut down Hostess out of spite

[Sacajaweau]

Then they must be doing “the right thing”.

[Pollster1]

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.

In other words, they forced the previous company out of business and they are going to try to force the new company to deal with them if the new owners won't do it voluntarily. It sounds like an arrangement that battered spouses know quite well. How could management refuse a relationship like that?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Maybe the new owners are capitalists who have figured out that unions are nothing but a campaign arm of the Communist DemocRAT Party.

"Hey! You no build that! Somebody else they build that!"

[wally_bert]

It is because of the typical wal mart shopper that I do my best never to set foot in one unless I really, really have to.

The illegals, EBT abusers, and other sterling members of our moocher society I see jamming up all the checkout lanes sometimes almost makes me physically ill.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” . Those four successful cake plants “

No, you made them UNSUCCESSFUL.

[jimpick]

So now they will be able to sell them at a lower price and actually be able to pay the new workers instead of going bankrupt.

[dennisw]

No offense to any union workers here but they would be idiots if they were to hire union workers. That’s how this whole thing began.

The old workers might sabotage the machinery. The Hostess operations seem scaled down and they will operate with fewer workers to achieve a given output. The former operation probably had all kinds of union instituted feather bedding and planned inefficiencies

[NewHampshireDuo]

My guess is that the learning curve for a snack cake worker (aka machine minder) is about 1 hour. The “skilled” union folks can shove it.

[dead]

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.

If your "decades of experience, expertise, and training" bring value to the position, you'll get paid well, within the range that the market will bear.

If not, you can break the legs of people who will do the work as well for less money.

[tomkat]