The Unions killed the Twinkie

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  • Vedubin01
    R3V Elite
    • Jun 2006
    • 5852

    #1

    The Unions killed the Twinkie

    and now 18000 people are with out work. I guess the Unions showed them who's boss! 18000 people just became dependent on the Gov for their well being.


    This is most likely just the beginning of more to come!


    RIP Twinkie, Ding Dongs, and Wonder Bread!


    Hostess, the makers of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business after striking workers failed to heed a Thursday deadline to return to work, the company said. “We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” Hostess CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said in a statement announcing that it had filed a motion to shutter its business with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. “Hostess Brands will move promptly to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders.” Hostess Brands Inc. had warned employees that it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to unwind its business and sell off assets if plant operations didn’t return to normal levels by 5 p.m. EST Thursday.


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  • redsubdivisions
    E30 Mastermind
    • Feb 2011
    • 1762

    #2
    I read about this as well. I love Twinkies. and I'm tall and lanky. lol
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    • Exodus_2pt0
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      • Dec 2011
      • 5943

      #3
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      • Cabriolet
        R3V OG
        • Apr 2010
        • 9620

        #4
        I've been telling people for years! Unions are crippling our economy. They had their place back in the early 1900s through about 1950. we needed the reform as a country. But now we have to look at the big picture and that we live in a global economy, Unions need to be done away with, along with all collective bargaining. People should be paid based on their performance, not seniority or what an over inflated economy is telling them they should be paid.
        We lost a 82 year old company and these 18500 idiots now lost their jobs. Lets see how much that tiny raise was worth it to them. - let me guess their pay was better than what they will be making this Christmas.
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        • Mr. Burns
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          • Aug 2011
          • 3516

          #5
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          • BraveUlysses
            No R3VLimiter
            • Jun 2007
            • 3781

            #6
            Originally posted by Cabriolet
            I've been telling people for years! Unions are crippling our economy. They had their place back in the early 1900s through about 1950. we needed the reform as a country. But now we have to look at the big picture and that we live in a global economy, Unions need to be done away with, along with all collective bargaining. People should be paid based on their performance, not seniority or what an over inflated economy is telling them they should be paid.
            We lost a 82 year old company and these 18500 idiots now lost their jobs. Lets see how much that tiny raise was worth it to them. - let me guess their pay was better than what they will be making this Christmas.
            Not all of these employees went on strike...something something broad brushstrokes something something.

            Anyway, this is a very unfortunate situation and I wish it didn't turn out this way. Best of luck to everyone affected by this happening and hopefully they will find work soon.

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            • e30e
              R3VLimited
              • Dec 2004
              • 2176

              #7
              Weird my company has been doing very well for the last 150 years and everyone is unionized. Weird..... Let me guess you believe its employees that kill a company and not its management, products, or market conditions.
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              • Buzztt
                Wrencher
                • Sep 2012
                • 215

                #8
                i very much doubt this is the end of the twinkie, i'm sure the rights will be sold to the highest bidder and these things will be made forever
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                • Cabriolet
                  R3V OG
                  • Apr 2010
                  • 9620

                  #9
                  When you are dealing with a free market system and you cant correct your business it will fail. unions have a strangle hold on so many of our country's work places.


                  Unions in 2012 are a lose lose. and when you finally realize it will be too late.

                  make less, keep your job, fire the people that under preform. reality sucks and cooperate bailouts aren't the answer.
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                  • Vedubin01
                    R3V Elite
                    • Jun 2006
                    • 5852

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Cabriolet
                    When you are dealing with a free market system and you cant correct your business it will fail. unions have a strangle hold on so many of our country's work places.


                    Unions in 2012 are a lose lose. and when you finally realize it will be too late.

                    make less, keep your job, fire the people that under preform. reality sucks and cooperate bailouts aren't the answer.

                    Holy Shit, you are even from California!

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                    • bmwstephen
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                      • May 2009
                      • 2463

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Vedubin01
                      Holy Shit, you are even from California!

                      +1
                      don't even get me started on the california nurses union. a lot of medical organizations in my area are in the same position. Even non-profit companies like kaiser and sutter health are close to hostess status. they are the primary contributor of crappier service and sky rocketing insurance costs out here.

                      my significant other who happens to be a hardworking bright (short of being a doctor) nurse cannot even get a job unless she is a member. On top of that, their pay, hiring, and enrollment system isn't based on performance. It's all about connections.

                      sickens me that they use "patients health" as a poster child for their ridiculous demands

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                      • ForcedFirebird
                        R3V OG
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 8300

                        #12
                        I have always been in Florida and only dealt with a few union workers and was not impressed. Hired a mason when building houses, showed me his union card as he just moved down from the North East. Well, I figured "Hey, union worker, this guy is going to be great!". Well, when I asked him why he was getting 1/3 the work done of the rest of the guys, he replied "Back home we will catch flack for out-performing the others and the reps get upset when we lay more than 100 blocks in a day." I told him to pucker up and get something done and ended up firing him less than a week later. At the time, the going rate for contractors in Florida was about $3/block give or take, by the time I was done paying his wages, comp and taxes, he was $27/hr ($18/hr pay). So at the end of the day his cost would be $216 to me - not much left for the business expenses at that rate, bit to make matters worse each mason had to have a tender at an avg of $8/hr ($12 after taxes etc = another $96/day). At his rate of production, I would lose $12/day per pair of workers.

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                        • InuFaye
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                          • May 2010
                          • 2221

                          #13
                          Executives took at 70% pay increase in July 2011 when they had corporate restructuring.

                          Bunch of fuckers.
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                          • mikeedler
                            R3V OG
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 6707

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Cabriolet
                            We lost a 82 year old company and these 18500 idiots now lost their jobs. Lets see how much that tiny raise was worth it to them. - let me guess their pay was better than what they will be making this Christmas.

                            Those idiots your talking about are family members to some of us.

                            You don't even know what your talking about. My brother has been making a 115 mile round trip to work every day for years, because that company has been dying for many years now.

                            It was going to happen one day, the name Hostess has been tossed aound so many times over the years. About 15 years ago, when the company started going down hill, my father that was running most of the midwest (Wi,Mi,Il,In) areas bailed and headed over to Holsum bread- he saw it coming back then.

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                            • tjts1
                              E30 Mastermind
                              • May 2007
                              • 1851

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Vedubin01
                              The Unions killed the Twinkie
                              Fewer fat fucks stinking up the place.


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