And the flip side of the coin, management puts all those people out of work instead of giving them a small raise, sad, sad day to be a working man in todays world!!

Well, the article states that it is based in Irving, Texas. And of course, Texas is one of those right-to-work states. They must be dealing with multiple unions in multiple states. The article also states it is not their first rodeo with Chapter 11. The company was likely on the brink anyway for likely a plethora of reasons, not the least of which were the overburdening costs associated with all of the unions they were dealing with.

America’s biggest retailer may be in for an unexpectedly painful holiday season. Protesting low wages, spiking health care premiums, and alleged retaliation from management, Wal-Mart Stores workers have started to walk off the job this week. First, on Wednesday, about a dozen workers in Wal-Mart’s distribution warehouses in Southern California walked out, followed the next day by 30 more from six stores in the Seattle area.

Wal-Mart Workers' Black Friday Strike - Yahoo! Finance

... and no sooner do I finish posting that, do I see this :



WTF is going on?!?! ... is it class-goddang-warfare?

Yeah, that's what I thought, Hostess was already hemorrhaging before the threat to strike, the union not willing to accept concessions was just the last straw.

Oh well, the unions are going to have to realize not every corporation/industry is going to get the big government bailout like GM & start going along or risk losing their jobs. I guess we just need cars more than we do Twinkies, .

I'm gonna' miss my fruit pies & ding-dongs from the local day-old Hostess Outlet, even if they sell their assets & someone else makes 'em, they'll never be the same, .

... The companys have more power than one thinks and for someone like Hostess to fold it's far more than Union labor that put them there, thats just a small portion of their problem.

Time after time in big buisness upper management missuses the profits they have made over the years and Hostest has been around since I can remember,

I don't understand why someone like the working man gets blamed for upper management mishandling funds, neglecting to put up money that should go back in the buisness that goes into their pocket.

They want cheap labor (slave labor) without good conditions

but what happens when someone gets old, they get replaced and a check. To me that is crazy, to work all your life to come out with nothing, to end up on food stamps

The companys have more power than one thinks and for someone like Hostess to fold it's far more than Union labor that put them there, thats just a small portion of their problem.

Time after time in big buisness upper management missuses the profits they have made over the years and Hostest has been around since I can remember, I don't understand why someone like the working man gets blamed for upper management mishandling funds, neglecting to put up money that should go back in the buisness that goes into their pocket. They want cheap labor(slave labor) without good conditions and maybe thats o.k. for some but what happens when someone gets old, they get replaced and a check. To me that is crazy, to work all your life to come out with nothing, to end up on food stamps and let the government dictate every thing to someone. I don't agree with everything the Union leaders do but as a working man in my trade if it were not for the Union I would not be able to provide the way of life the way I have been very fortunate to provide. The companys have more power than one thinks and for someone like Hostess to fold it's far more than Union labor that put them there, thats just a small portion of their problem.

They want cheap labor(slave labor) without good conditions and maybe thats o.k. for some but what happens when someone gets old, they get replaced and a check. To me that is crazy, to work all your life to come out with nothing, to end up on food stamps and let the government dictate every thing to someone.