What happens when a union strikes? Does it get what it wants? Do its workers benefit? Unions are good. Right?
Or, when they push relentlessly for higher wages and benefits, can that just put a huge company out of business?
Hostess, maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread and a company with about $2.5 billion in sales, is going out of business. It has shut down production of food items at its 33 U.S. plants.
Union members ought to be thanking the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union for standing up for their rights. And they ought to be checking the wages and benefits of its union leaders.
I guess we will all have to find new ways to build strong bodies...
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3 months ago
9 comments:
Strong bodies? That food is crap. However, the employees gave concessions back in 2004 and now the company wanted the employees to take an 8% cut. It's lose lose for everyone. The employees take 100% cut in pay and the company gets liquidated. Oh wait - no more Twinkies - that's the good news! A twinkie's shelf life is longer than either one of us, Frank. Think that builds strong bodies? ha ha
Strong bodies? Don't you remember?
Wonder Bread builds strong bodies 12 different ways.
For all of you Twinkie lovers. It wasn't the union's fault like everyone says. The CEO tripled his salary in 2011, and people are eating fewer unhealthy foods. I think it's hilarious how this is painted as a "union strike puts company out of business story." You literally would have to be an idiot to believe that ... unions have had very little power for about, oh 20 - 30 years. They could have literally closed the plant and opened the next day with all new workers and the law wouldn't have stopped them.
The employees took a 38% cut in 2004, and were asked to take an 8% cut in 2012. WOW THAT UNION MUST BE POWERFUL.
How you anti-union people can read and write is a mystery to me, the real problem is management. Further, how anyone, and I mean anyone can repeat the "unions are causing prices to rise and businesses to go out of busines" in 2012 is someone who is stuck in the past and will probably never wake up.
Here are some other current new for you. Seat belts to be placed in cars, smoking is good for you, etc.etc. Soviet Union could attack at any time.
The workers got what they ask for, "MORE". They should have been thankful they were working. If they didn't like it, did they look for something better? Probably not... other wise they would have kept there mouth shut. $20.00/hr @ (8)% = ($1.60) or $10.00/hr @ (8)% = ($.80).
I think they should have taken the cut.
@Ray- to be fair and accurate, the CEO's pay went from 775k to 2.25mil last April- no one has bothered to mention whether this was codified in his employment contract, or that the board of directors authorized this. No one has mentioned how the extra money would have helped service their debt. Drop and bucket comes to mind.
As to the multiple unions involved? As an owner of a Chicago based manufacturing firm, I can only speak to their Chicago operation- which was a multi-union nightmare. Management worked with them as best they could- but unprofitable is unprofitable.
Of course, I remember. I don't agree with the slogan.
It should have been Hostess builds heart disease, obesity and diabetes- 1 way!
John, I believe I said unprofitable is unprofitable. This company was going to take a dirt nap, union or not, that was my point.
Others who suggest that the workers should take a pay cut and just shut up, are merely delusional. Workers have been taking a pay cut for the last 30 years.
Also, I did not cite the CEO salary rise as the monetary reason for the collapse (I mean really, duh?) I cited it for the environment of management gets the gold, and the workers get the shaft.
Why don't you point out to me how that's not true? Oh, ...you can't, huh...
And I am sorry for my tone. I am just a little tired of the "unions demands killed my twinkie cowboy mascot" news storys, that are supported by the minions of our repeated as fact with no support, by the Fox news crowd.
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