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NBCDFW: Twinkies Maker Hostess Going Out of Business, CEO Blames Union Strike

Kilmer17

By Kilmer17
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HogNose

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You'd be surprised at the crazy **** we can dream up in the kitchen of an Applebee's at 3 a.m. while wat....ok, that was 20 years ago, but still, half of it ended up on the menu. That bbq chicken pizza was credited to my nutty bar mgr at the time...love ya, Chris.

Whoever came up with that Quesadilla Burger was a damn genius. Food porn at its finest but I always feel like my heart will burst after eating one.

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Burgold

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Never seen so much junk food discrimination in one thread in my life here.

No Virginia, not everyone who indulges in a guilty pleasure from time to time is a 450 lb moose.

Fair, but diabetes is an epidemic in the United States and the obesity rate is way, way too high.

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AsburySkinsFan

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You see that and laugh because you refuse to believe that there is a symbiosis between company and workers, and workers should ladly keep taking pay cuts while CEOs reward themselves with huge bonuses and raises. I've got another friend that thinks like you do, and I asked him at what point he thought the workers should stand up and say no, but he's so against unions that he really believes that the workers should take whatever is offered to them. Tyranny of the corporation.

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twa

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You see that and laugh because you refuse to believe that there is a symbiosis between company and workers, and workers should ladly keep taking pay cuts while CEOs reward themselves with huge bonuses and raises.

I see a symbiosis between bankruptcy and bloodsuckers...both of the executive and union class

Twinkees should be free....set my Ho Ho's free

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DieselPwr44

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Fair, but diabetes is an epidemic in the United States and the obesity rate is way, way too high.

So what is next?

Outlaw all junk food?

There's already a mayor telling his citizens how much soft drink they can purchase and has the nerve to tell resturants how much salt they can cook with.

Where does it end?

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Burgold

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So what is next?

Outlaw all junk food?

There's already a mayor telling his citizens how much soft drink they can purchase and has the nerve to tell resturants how much salt they can cook with.

Where does it end?

Personal responsibility would be a good start. People getting upset because others criticize an unhealthy lifestyle yet then want to determine what others do in terms of who can marry or denounce all sorts of other personal freedoms that they want legislated away seems a bit... hypocritical.

I agree that Bloomberg seems off base with his health kick. I also think that criticizing an unhealthy diet as being unhealthy is fair.

Why are Conservatives always opposed to personal responsibility?

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Burgold

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Why do liberals always want those that work to pay for those who won't?

So, your claim is that the workers don't work? :ols:

Well, I guess if they're on strike you're technically right ;)

Still, kind of an odd argument to make in this thread. Need a different platitude :D

(Wow. A three smiley post. That's terrible.)

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Burgold

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When even the Teamsters tell you that you are a bloodsucking parasite that will kill the host........

Please kill the hostess... don't be sexist. :silly:

Still, honestly, Hostess was following a poor plan. Their numbers have been dreadful for years and when they emerged from bankrupsy just a few years ago, the situation didn't really turn. You can talk about workers, but it really has more to do with consumer choice.

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But Bur, the option to continue was offered and rejected...by the workers

Twinkees will live on, just made by someone willing

http://www.hostessbrands.com/Closing.aspx

The BCTGM in September rejected a last, best and final offer from Hostess Brands designed to lower costs so that the Company could attract new financing and emerge from Chapter 11. Hostess Brands then received Court authority on Oct. 3 to unilaterally impose changes to the BCTGM’s collective bargaining agreements.

Hostess Brands is unprofitable under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs. The offer to the BCTGM included wage, benefit and work rule concessions but also gave Hostess Brands’ 12 unions a 25 percent ownership stake in the company, representation on its Board of Directors and $100 million in reorganized Hostess Brands’ debt.

“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,”

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anyone know the wages and compensation of the Twinkee worker ants?

http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/13669-no-more-twinkies-unions-and-the-death-of-hostess

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