So, when the Company told you, over and over, "Honest, we're broke; if you strike, we're gonna have to shut the whole thing down and sell off all the assets," you thought they were bluffing?
They weren't.
Goodbye, Twinkies and cupcakes. Goodbye, little apple pies and Chocolate Donette Gems. I never ate 'em much but they were a dependable treat when I did. They might not have been good for me but they sure were good.
Dammit, unions, stop sawing off the branch you're hanging from! It falls on everyone when it falls.
(Turk Turon adds the delicious d'oh schadenfreude frosting!)
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Easy Prediction: The members of the unions will blame the company and not the Union or themselves.
Woody Harrelson just woke up crying and doesn't know why.
This was served up with a big heaping frosting of bad management too.
Gerry
No more Ding Dong's. What am I going to eat at the gun shows? No more powdered donnetts? They are so good with coffee. Maybe I'll go buy a few bags and freeze them.
Thank you bakers union. We junk food junkies appreciate everything you have done to save us from our addiction.
Well, there's always Little Debbies.
Yeah, kinda sad. An American icon of youth, and 18,000 jobs gone in 1 shot.
I'd bet, hmm, dollars to doughnuts that somebody will pick the company up for pennies on the dollar and bring it back -- without the union this time.
Hmmm, tough decision. Take a 2% cut in pay and benefits or go on strike and ultimately have nothing then try to find a new job in this economy with the skill set of a Hostess baker... Brilliant choice they made, now all 18,500 of them are unemployed. Now THAT'S solidarity!
Yes, the solidarity being primarily between their ears.
However, I wouldn't bet against the Obama administration using taxpayer money to "rescue" the workers's jobs and screw the creditors.
Michelle wouldn't let him.
No more wax donuts? 8(
I'll bet the mayor of NYC and the First Lady are behind it.
Aw, snert! Hostess makes my Home Pride wheat bread. Guess it's back to the locally made stuff, which only lasts about a week. Home Pride has almost the same shelf life as Twinkies.
+1 on Sherm... sigh
Twinkies can survive a nuclear apocalypse, but they can’t survive the Obama economy.
HEH
On the university campus where I work, you can tell when it's exam time by the fact there are no Twinkies to be found in the campus convenience store!
No Beefsteak seedless rye, either, as we found out to our dismay...and bought Aunt Millie's seedless rye instead, which turned out to be a superior product anyway.
INUMERABLE YOUNGSTERS WILL BE DEPRIVED
OF A VITAL FOOD GROUP FOR BROWN BAG LUNCHES AND AFTER SCHOOL SNACKS TO SAY
NOTHING OF THE CONSIQUENCES OF VITAL WORKERS IN POLICE AND FIRE STATIONS
HOSPITALS AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AND NORAD FROM GETTING THEIR MID-WATCH HYPER-GLYCEMIC FIX !
OH THE HUMANITY !!!
I'm going to miss the Beefsteak rye rather a lot -- toasted, it makes fantastic breakfast sandwiches. The thin slices kept it from overwhelming the egg, meat and cheese.
Schadenfreude indeed:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-16/hostess-liquidation-curious-cast-characters-twinkie-tumbles
Joanna,
"Woody Harrelson just woke up crying and doesn't know why."
If it hadn't been for "Hostess Shrugged", that would have won the internet, right there. :D
In 2008, the company asked the same union to take a paycut in order to save the company. That year, regional managers got $20K bonuses. Kinda hard to justify, isn't it? Kind of like how executives at failing banks used government bailout money to get million dollar bonuses.
It isn't just the unions.
No, it's short-sightedness all across the board; but at this juncture, that executive bonus money was gone and the question was, did they still want jobs, or not? They voted not.
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