Posted on 04/27/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
The company is doing well,so are the employees.
Jackie Tortora
I'm the blog editor and social media manager at the AFL-CIO. Interviewing union musicians was my introduction to the labor movement. My first job after graduating college was in Syracuse, New York, where I wrote and edited the International Musician, the monthly magazine for the American Federation of Musicians (AFM). Protecting Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts brought me to Washington, D.C., where I spent two years as a new media coordinator at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. I came to the AFL-CIO in the summer of 2012, just in time to re-elect President Barack Obama. When I'm not tweeting about America's unions, it's likely I'm watching Syracuse basketball and football.
Such as?
Political harassment?
Picket lines obstructing traffic?
Bombings?
Arson?
Harassment against employees?
Physical assaults on employees?
What else?
“Hey, where’d the dog go?”, said the fleas.
Isn’t that special!
Exactly! Hostess tried to come to an agreement with their unions and the unions refused. I have come to think that people who are in unions do not believe that the same realities that affect our lives should affect theirs.
I remember when everything went ker-fluey, and what did the Boeing Machinists do? They went on strike. People losing jobs left and right. People, like my hubby, whose 401K became a 201K. And, the union at Boeing decided it was a good time to strike. After that strike ended, Boeing moved part of their operations to a right-to-work state and opened a non-union plant. The union people here in the Seattle area were outraged. Honestly, what did they think was going to happen? The economy is in the tank, people are losing their jobs everywhere; but, you should get a big raise 'cause, why? You are in a union?
So, I just don't get the mind-set of these people. They seem to be at war with the people who hire them, and they always believe they are worth more money, even if the world around them is crumbling.
Why, so you could destroy this company too?
They won't hire you? GOOD, BITCHES.
SUFFER.
Put down the cookies and back away from the computer.
Anyone that has ever worked with unions knows the above is a not so subtle threat. There will be trouble.
This is tailor made for Obama to cause some trouble with.
Bakery, Confectionery, Torpedo Wankers and Goat Munchers(BCTGM) can KMA in Macy’s window. They rode a good company into the ground and now they are outta work. Good on them. Let em eat scab twinkles.
Noting that the title of this thread is the title of the article which was likely written under supervision of union bosses, the title is misleading imo. I think that the Hostess brands buyer probably doesn't have major problems with union workers. I think that a more honest title for the article is the following.
BCTGM 'Extremely Disappointed' by Reports Hostess Brands Buyer Will Not Deal With Greedy Union Bosses
I want my Devil Dogs back. Is the purchase of Hostess a package deal with Drakes Cakes?
different companies purchased different things
If they’re TRULY worried about all these experienced bakers and other skilled workers, they’d let them get rehired as NON-union so they could regain their job.
Won’t happen.
Dumb question: Will the union forbid its members from working for the new company?
Is he implying there is federal statues that say union thugs must be rehired?
Except in the mind of the Union leader ship and many members, it was all the companies fault.
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