Hostess Cupcakes Getting Ready to Shut Down Because of Unions.[TSWB]

that was as of jan 2012 [link to money.cnn.com]


this was dated may 2012 18k employees get pink slipped
Hostess Sends Layoff Notices to All Workers
[link to www.datalounge.com]

heres the update sept 2012
Twinkies and Ding Dongs: Is this goodbye?
[link to www.seattlepi.com]

Twinkie DOOM!!

Unions???? LOL

You can't mean they would take away our Twinkies!?!

Expect riots in the streets.

aaahhhhh say it isn't so

The TWINKIE WILL LIVE ! When we are dead and gone the twinkies will still be here. Future archaeologists will praise the discovery as the "Golden" discovery of the millennium, and it will be in museums across the world.

Don't they call young gay dudes Twinks?

Good people are to fat.

Walmrt soon to follow suit. HOPEFULLY !!!! Maybe the CHINESE Trade Will STOP !!! GIVE AMERICA BACK !!!

The corporation is run by three rich white guys. This is nothing but union busting bull shit driven by corporate greed. Sure isn't do to lack of sales. It has more than 400 job openings, more than 350 for sales routes.

And still edible!

Cant get around the old Minium wage, eh Mortimer?

Route sales has a VERY high turnover rate.

International Bakers has a long history of union troubles. Just another U.S. company destroyed by the combination of Government, and Unions.
(Or in other words, destroyed by LIBERALISM)

I see the diabetes rates going down.

Good!, shut that shit food producing place down! Eat enough of that crap, we promote diabetes, heart disease and damaged DNA.

They should just license the product names and recipes.

They wouldn't be hiring if they weren't moving product. It's headquarted in Irving Texas, the bastion of corporate greed. In fact, the new CEO is a "take down guy" - cut the workforce, threaten those that remain for higher and higher production levels and line their own pockets. Nope just another bunch of rich white guys riding the wave of conservative destructionism. Corporate greed.

Compared with the greed of the union bosses, who probably are white too?

They may think they're altruistic, but they'd sell their grandmother down the river for a few extra bucks or to protect their pumped-up pride during contract negotiations.

This person is STUPID!!!

What part of "BANKRUPT" is it you refuse to understand?

One can be bankrupt and still conducting business. The business can be producing positive cashflow, just not enough to meet debt obligations after operating expenses.

This is a shame, I am sympathetic to unionized PRIVATE employees. We should tell WTO to take a hike, so we can protect unionized jobs like these.

WTO doesn't threaten unionized PUBLIC employees because their work generally cannot be outsourced. Yet, in a cruel twist, unionized public employees are a horrible perversion of the collective bargaining concept, because the public has no option to go bankrupt, it must just sit there and pay.

Buy stocks in Drakes Cakes.China makes a more filling version of the twinkie and it is round not phallic shaped.

Whose side are you on, anyway?! Unions were formed to stop exploitation of workers and to attempt to get them a living wage. Now the unions are busted and Americans' average income has been declining for at least a decade while stocks and corporate incomes continue to rise? Why is exploitation of American workers in order to enrich company owners a Good Thing???!

Has nothing to do with unions.

How come the kneejerk GLP reaction is to defend transnational corporations and throw working people under the bus?

Strange, for such a group of people who describe themselves as "awake".

The UNIONS should burn the factory down, and hang the managers and stockholders for Crimes Against Humanity.


Yeeeeee....HaaaaaaaW

i havent even had one of these lovelies yet, my country started its war against private business ten years ago.....

They should just go bankrupt.
The union has broken the company.
Let the chips fall where they may.

Or maybe Obama could buy the company for us,
and give all the workers a raise, and cut the price
of twinkies, and hand China the bill?

Why not? It's worked so far.

If your wiener is shaped like a twinkie,
you better get to the groinacologist.