Posted on 10/06/2009 11:24:02 PM PDT by neverdem
$ 18 an hour to pack cookies ??? Holy sheet !
$18/hour for packing cookies into a box?!
Here’s a sad fact of life that private sector unions never ever seem to learn: the employer always has the last word, and that word is “Closed.”
Unless a gummit takeover/bailout (gag, retch) is arranged. I sure wish GM and Chrysler had had the option to say “Closed.”
Agreed. The result of the Obozo's kowtowing to his union buddies is that GM and Chrystler are just going to fail later rather than sooner.
Looking at the Slimes report, looks like a cat fight is going to be going on for some time between the union and Brynwood. Brynwood is alleged to have described itself as a finance company, and the NLRB ruled against it last June in a union dispute. Union might end up being able to claw some damages out of Brynwood.
And dig a deeper deficit hole in the process.
PLUS!!...
The union contract included health insurance paid entirely by the company, and generous leave that could add up to 10 weeks a year when vacation, sick days and holidays were counted.
No wonder Kraft dumped it. It wouldn't surprise me if Brynwood is a hidden subsidiary of Kraft, operating only to do unseemly "wet work" on behalf of Kraft so that Kraft doesn't have to get its hands dirty... Anyway, this sounds to me like Brynwood had to play games in order to justify the sale of the company to a non-union shop in another state where the company could possibly earn an evil profit while avoiding trouble with the NLRB.
on a good week I’m making 12 bucks an hour in my job! And people wonder why we don’t make anything in this country anymore.
Could be, but that will just enrich the union and won't compensate the ladies getting $18/hr, 10 weeks vacation, and fully-paid health insurance. Typical short-sighted union thuggery.
Theyre going to pay $15 million to $20 million in shutdown costs, Mr. Filippou said. They wouldnt talk to any of the private equity firms that tried to make a deal. To me, thats just spite.
Yes, I'm sure the owners decided to lose millions out of "spite." It had nothing to do with the downturn in the economy, and the intransigence of the union. No sir.
What a shame -- Stella D'oro was a NY institution.
I’m not sure if what Brynwood sold Lance was the company per se, or just the recipes and the brand name. It will be interesting to see what Lance Stellas end up tasting like.
It succeeded in a New York way -- and failed in a New York way.
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Unions killed the once thriving manufacturing belt and casued it to be the rust belt instead
now the children and grandchildren of those folks have moved down south and brought their sensibilities with them
it remains to be seen if they will learn or try to screw up all over again down here
jury is still out but the fact that Nashville proper is now probably 25% northern born plays no small part in turning us into a “progressive” city
just look at the Piedmont
however here in Williamson county we appear to have gotten the “good” yankees...now if they can just learn to appreciate why our town square soldier faces south..lol
Stella D'Oro union workers on the picket line Sunday, June 14th 2009
For more about the strike from the union perspective and detailed wage and benefit package reductions go to:
http://www.indypendent.org/2009/03/20/bronx-bakery-battle/
This was published in May of 2009.
Most revealing are the unionist comments at the tail of the article. There are are two America, Obama's version thrives in NYC. The hard core union guys arguing that the SDO workers weren't "striking hard enough"( wink, nod, the finger along side the nose)
Union cookie makers? Damn.
They were the OWNERS. Control goes with ownership - or it used to.
I suppose these unions think that they can put owners up against the wall and they'll buckle. Sometimes, maybe they do, but sometimes they say "screw you" and take the jobs to Mexico or even Ohio, where the remaining population well remember what union intransigence can do to the employment base of a community.
I spent 40 years of my life just two blocks from the Stella D’oro bakery in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx and will forever remember the wonderful aromas of their baking products filling the air as I walked to school each morning.
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