the greatest irony is that the "private equity" firm that owned Hostess, Ripplewood, is owned by a big Democrat contributor and fund-raiser. In fact, Ripplewood and Hostess even hired the famously pro-union politician, Dick Gephardt, as a consultant, to try and help him subdue the unions and limit their astronomical costs.
It seems that everything the Unions touch turns to crap at some point-and the workers end up in the toilet with the company having to flush them down the tubes along with their products.
How can workers love their Union knowing they are used this way?? It’s like an abusive marriage...
Have Unions ever made a company better?? Ever? Have they ever made the company lots and lots of money?
My guess would be a big fat NO just based on the fact that they have to have 2 trucks make a delivery-one for cake and one for bread...and how much is the cost of gas now? And I am so SURE their trucks are “green” too...
Next time I go shopping I will tell my husband I need to make 2 trips-one for food and another for cleaning products-he would promptly hide the keys and check the liquor cabinet.
All Unions seem to do is pillage, destroy and leave behind boarded up buildings; they are merely parasites who suck their host dry by any means possible and then just move on to their next victim...
I have detested Unions since about the 5th grade when I began to understand that the annual teacher’s strike in August was really about money- and not about teaching. I loved school and every single year they threatened me with “no school” unless they got more money...even as a 10 year old I knew that that was wrong-they made me sick but thankfully, also made me a Conservative :)
Suzy