Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

BCTGM 'Extremely Disappointed' by Reports Hostess Brands Buyer Will Not Hire Union Members
AFL-CIO ^ | 4/26/2013 | Jackie Tortora

Posted on 04/27/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by mdittmar

Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) issued a statement today, responding to the sale of the iconic Twinkies brand.
 
In response to Metropoulos & Co. CEO C. Dean Metropoulos' statement to The Wall Street Journal that the company will not hire union workers when reopening four former Hostess Brands bakeries, BCTGM International President David B. Durkee issued the following statement on behalf of all BCTGM members:

The BCTGM is pleased to see that Hostess Brands LLC, the newly formed snack cake company created by Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co, has announced that it will be reopening four Hostess bakeries to produce the iconic Hostess cake brands. Those four successful cake plants were represented by the BCTGM for many years under former Hostess ownership.

However, we are extremely disappointed to see negative statements from company executives about the union status of its future employees. Ideally, we would like to see as many of our members hired as possible. We believe their combination of experience, dedication and know-how will give the new owners the chance to get high quality snack cakes back in the marketplace.

Federal labor law governing the hiring process and the obligations for the employer and the rights of the future employees in this situation is quite definitive. We expect that the new owners will respect the statutory rights of all workers during the hiring, startup and future of this new company.

The BCTGM remains focused on ensuring that the new Hostess Brands ownership understands that the snack cakes at the center of this new company are inextricably linked to the hands that make them—and have made them for generations. We know that our workers have a critical role to play in protecting and enhancing some of America’s most valuable consumer brands. We all want the same outcome: that the brands should prosper and endure. This is what the next stage of this saga is all about—implementing a new ownership and manufacturing structure worthy of the brands themselves and America’s manufacturing prowess.

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. 

It is our sincere hope that the new owners will fully recognize the tremendous value of hiring back our members. 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hostess; unions
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last
Looking forward to those raspberry filled donuts again;)
1 posted on 04/27/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: mdittmar
Awww.... Should have thought of your jobs earlier, zipperheads.

/johnny

2 posted on 04/27/2013 2:27:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

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.


3 posted on 04/27/2013 2:28:11 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

Mewling Marxists.

Boo hoo.


4 posted on 04/27/2013 2:30:20 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

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


5 posted on 04/27/2013 2:30:49 PM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tsowellfan

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.


6 posted on 04/27/2013 2:32:53 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

“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.


7 posted on 04/27/2013 2:33:03 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: poobear

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.


8 posted on 04/27/2013 2:33:14 PM PDT by bigfootbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: poobear

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

They went bankrupt because of your representation!


9 posted on 04/27/2013 2:33:19 PM PDT by kcvl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

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


10 posted on 04/27/2013 2:34:59 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

Then they must be doing “the right thing”.


11 posted on 04/27/2013 2:35:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar
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?

12 posted on 04/27/2013 2:35:49 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar
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!"

13 posted on 04/27/2013 2:36:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I got expelled from the "fundamental transformation" indoctrination center.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bigfootbob

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.


14 posted on 04/27/2013 2:38:13 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

” . Those four successful cake plants “

No, you made them UNSUCCESSFUL.


15 posted on 04/27/2013 2:38:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

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.


16 posted on 04/27/2013 2:39:54 PM PDT by jimpick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: 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.

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

17 posted on 04/27/2013 2:42:05 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar

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.


18 posted on 04/27/2013 2:42:35 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mdittmar
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.

19 posted on 04/27/2013 2:42:53 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


             

20 posted on 04/27/2013 2:43:19 PM PDT by tomkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson