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Hostess sends layoff notices to all workers (more-than 18,000)
blogs.wsj.com/bvankruptcy ^ | May 7, 2012 | Rachel Feintzeig

Posted on 05/07/2012 5:21:52 PM PDT by MamaDearest

Hostess Brands Inc. on Friday sent out letters notifying its more-than 18,000 workers that they could be laid off in the next two months.

The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread on Friday mailed out WARN Act notices to all of its employees, a Hostess spokeswoman confirmed to Bankruptcy Beat Monday. The federal WARN Act requires companies to give employees 60 days notice before closing a facility or ordering mass layoffs. However, sending the notices doesn’t mean a company is definitely going to lay off the recipients.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: bakery; bankruptcy; bhoeconomy; foodpolice; hostess; jobless; layoff; nutrition; obamanomics; recovery; twinkies; wonderbread
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To: MamaDearest
In college, my breakfast often consisted of 2 Suzi-Q's and a can of Mountain Dew.

Perhaps this will become merely a memory - instead of an option.

81 posted on 05/07/2012 7:27:31 PM PDT by brewcrew (Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid. --John Wayne)
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To: VA40

You made my day!


82 posted on 05/07/2012 7:29:02 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: GeronL

That would be a Ring Ding. Got to keep your Ding Dongs separate from your Devil Dogs, Yodels, and Ring Dings. Personally, I will be renting a storage unit to hoard all my synthetic Hostess “baked” goods in. You never know when you’ll get a yen for a Yodel. If you ever see it auctioned off on Storage Wars, you’ll know that was me.


83 posted on 05/07/2012 7:36:42 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: 2111USMC

I personally think they raise the prices (soda, chips, medical supplies, fast food items, etc., etc) because they can. A few cents at a time so the price gouging is under the radar unlike the gas prices that are front and center.


84 posted on 05/07/2012 7:37:12 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: GeronL
>>Now I could eat a bag of these, especially the chocolate ones.

Since you brought up the topic, this is a classic in that space:


85 posted on 05/07/2012 7:37:12 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Maudeen

Yeah, I assumed rationalized, since it doesn’t look like you rationed anything much. Personally, I’d do the box on a slightly long ride home from the market. I’m not trusted around artificial food.


86 posted on 05/07/2012 7:40:34 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: Doe Eyes

Unions didn’t make pot illegal.

The government did and since it is illegal we should just throw up our hands and let Michelle Odinga ban anything she wants?

We should just give up?


87 posted on 05/07/2012 7:41:07 PM PDT by Eaker (When somebody hands you your arse, don't give it back saying "This needs a little more tenderizing.")
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To: visualops; Delta 21

They’re out of TN, so almost certainly non-union.

I had some guys I worked with ~25 years ago who were addicted to their stuff. Me, I was never much for junk food of any sort.


88 posted on 05/07/2012 7:41:27 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FatherofFive

Ho Hos? Ding Dongs? Cheeze Whiz
Best if all this crap was off the market. “

Fie! You’ll pry the Cheez Whiz from my cold, dead hand. If I could visit one moment in the past, it would be a toss-up between the moment Tchaikovsky thought of putting cannons in a symphonic overture, and the moment the words “aerosol” and “cheese” first came together in someone’s mind.


89 posted on 05/07/2012 7:45:05 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: GeronL

Yeah, we got lots of exercise walking back and forth to the candy store.


90 posted on 05/07/2012 7:46:40 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: GeronL

You nee to either get a bigger butt or try Viagra.


91 posted on 05/07/2012 7:50:46 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: kearnyirish2

Oh yes...all the caffeine and none of the calories! (Though look into using actual loose tea instead of teabags...a 100% improvement in taste!)


92 posted on 05/07/2012 8:00:49 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: 2111USMC

I think inflation is more of a cause than anything else (though we officially have none). Our tolls just doubled here in NJ; everything costs more (gold, foreign currencies, etc.) because the IOUs are weakening our dollar.


93 posted on 05/07/2012 8:04:46 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Humble Servant

Playing outside until dark helped.


94 posted on 05/07/2012 8:05:56 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: kearnyirish2

I once found a can of Minute Maid that was 100% fruit juice instead of the soda-type and it was the best thing I ever drank.


95 posted on 05/07/2012 8:08:48 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: M1903A1

Thanks; I’ll definitely give that a try. I have to do something; it’s one thing to be heavy, and another to have just this grotesque gut.


96 posted on 05/07/2012 8:11:11 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Bronzy

Hostess used to be part of Wonder Bread, in the Philadelphia area, anyway.


97 posted on 05/07/2012 8:12:25 PM PDT by Eva
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To: GeronL

I’m not familiar with a Minute Maid soda-type drink; what do you mean?


98 posted on 05/07/2012 8:12:52 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: kearnyirish2
I was under the impression that not all of their canned products were 100% juice. I guess I could be wrong. Like a soda can.


99 posted on 05/07/2012 8:24:49 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Huskrrrr
Satisfied Moochelle?

This story is about HO HOs, not HOs.

100 posted on 05/07/2012 8:49:40 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Romney vs. Obama? One of them has to lose, rejoice in that fact, whichever it is.)
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