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Phennommennonn (OP) Forum Administrator 11/18/2012 09:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP, I usually either ignore and/or consider the source when I read some of your posts, but this time I must respectfully disagree with your oponion on Unions! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972577 I've been employeed with a Hershey Company for almost 30 years and my Union has been extremely fair. Unless you were involved with the hostess company, your oponion is merely speculation. Just another river rat making over dramatic comments. ummmm....i live a farts blow from the hershey choc factories/422 - if memory serves - most of your colleagues werent too happy when they wanted to close that one plant & move to mexico. union pressure was driving them to do it. jus sayin And if that had happened, Americans should stand by their fellow citizens and stop buying Hersheys... simples. pay attention bc youre missing important plot points George Soros funding Socialism with Unions Quoting: Phennommennonn [link to onenerveleft.couragetosee.com] Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute American Civil Liberties Union. Democratic Party Health Care for America Now: Immigrant Defense Project Media Fund:/Media Matters for America NAACP National Lawyers Guild National Public Radio: Shadow Democratic Party MoveOn Rebuild and Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity '09): Spearheaded by MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of President Obama’s "historic" $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010. Public Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased government intervention and litigation against corporations -- a practice founded on the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist system of which they are a part, are inherently inclined toward corruption Southern Poverty Law Center: Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical Left. YWCA read the whopper list here [link to www.discoverthenetworks.org] Democratic Socialists of America member John Sweeney became president of the AFL-CIO and successfully repealed a federation rule prohibiting Communists from serving as leaders of its member unions. Abandoning the blue-collar industrial unionism of the past, Sweeney was instrumental in remaking labor into a progressive movement [link to www.discoverthenetworks.org] Another immensely powerful union is the 1.8 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which ranks among the largest and fastest-growing unions in North America. Led by the former New Leftist Andrew Stern from 1996-2010, SEIU is a major component of the so-called “Shadow Democratic Party,” a nationwide network -- conceived and funded by George Soros and his political allies -- of unions, nonprofit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats. [link to www.discoverthenetworks.org] political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |
~Magik~ User ID: 28020593 United Kingdom 11/18/2012 09:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP, I usually either ignore and/or consider the source when I read some of your posts, but this time I must respectfully disagree with your oponion on Unions! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 972577 I've been employeed with a Hershey Company for almost 30 years and my Union has been extremely fair. Unless you were involved with the hostess company, your oponion is merely speculation. Just another river rat making over dramatic comments. ummmm....i live a farts blow from the hershey choc factories/422 - if memory serves - most of your colleagues werent too happy when they wanted to close that one plant & move to mexico. union pressure was driving them to do it. jus sayin And if that had happened, Americans should stand by their fellow citizens and stop buying Hersheys... simples. pay attention bc youre missing important plot points George Soros funding Socialism with Unions Quoting: Phennommennonn [link to onenerveleft.couragetosee.com] Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute American Civil Liberties Union. Democratic Party Health Care for America Now: Immigrant Defense Project Media Fund:/Media Matters for America NAACP National Lawyers Guild National Public Radio: Shadow Democratic Party MoveOn Rebuild and Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity '09): Spearheaded by MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of President Obama’s "historic" $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010. Public Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased government intervention and litigation against corporations -- a practice founded on the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist system of which they are a part, are inherently inclined toward corruption Southern Poverty Law Center: Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical Left. YWCA read the whopper list here [link to www.discoverthenetworks.org] Democratic Socialists of America member John Sweeney became president of the AFL-CIO and successfully repealed a federation rule prohibiting Communists from serving as leaders of its member unions. Abandoning the blue-collar industrial unionism of the past, Sweeney was instrumental in remaking labor into a progressive movement [link to www.discoverthenetworks.org] Another immensely powerful union is the 1.8 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which ranks among the largest and fastest-growing unions in North America. Led by the former New Leftist Andrew Stern from 1996-2010, SEIU is a major component of the so-called “Shadow Democratic Party,” a nationwide network -- conceived and funded by George Soros and his political allies -- of unions, nonprofit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats. [link to www.discoverthenetworks.org] Unions and politics shouldn't mix. Bloody tempting though, the scoundrels. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26992467 United States 11/18/2012 09:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hostess employees in Nash County, North Carolina on Friday were relieved that they would lose their jobs because union workers would not agree to an 8-percent pay cut, which was approved by a bankruptcy judge, and end their strike, which crippled the company's factories across the United States. Quoting: Phennommennonn [link to www.breitbart.com] why !!!!?? so they can all sit home, and qualify for drum roll plz........... unemployment & extensions if applicable (see respective state) medicaid/medical (respective state) free clinics (respective state if applicable) the obama phone the obama mtg assistance 10$ internet/comcast food stamps (free food) section 8 housing (free rent) free clothing vouchers (via respective state) Yes, they love ob their king... King Ding Dong [link to postimage.org] [link to postimage.org] Don't forget to get your new improved healthy snacks, endorsed & enforced by obama health. [link to postimage.org] Yummy! ( feel free to insert pics ) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26085824 United States 11/18/2012 09:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's hard to imagine a company with $2.5 Billion (with a B) in yearly sales couldn't keep its head above water. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27936947 It's a harbinger of things to come. To much government regulation. Unemployment insurance. Social security taxes. Corporate income taxes. OSHA. EPA. Disability insurance. Now Obamacare. Too much. Atlas shrugged because he collapsed. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24433009 United States 11/18/2012 09:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't like the democrats handouts they give to minorities and women which encourages them to breed, but I like the war on drugs and war in the middle east even less. I will not vote republican until they see the light of day on the war on drugs and start to become more libertarian and trust law abiding citizens to have total control over their lives. Period. No legislating morality. Live and let fuckin live. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5141990 United States 11/18/2012 09:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's hard to imagine a company with $2.5 Billion (with a B) in yearly sales couldn't keep its head above water. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27936947 Greed, greed. The ravenous glorified in their hearts owners and execs wouldn't be happy until they digested their families and then themselves. And even in death it still wouldn't be enough. The devil is probably scared of them. and right now they are "Legion" beware. |
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FierySky User ID: 21544545 United States 11/18/2012 10:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | dude you idiot, you said its hard to imagine...its not hard at all to imagine..just have to have over 2.5 B in expenses and bullshit......how is that unimaginable? Oh, I thought you were going to explain the numbers to me? Apparently you really know nothing about the numbers, and you are only capable of spouting bullshit. And by the way I did take accounting in college, and I have worked for a major corporation for over 20 years so I know a little about how these things work. What I found hard to imagine is that they couldn't find any viable way to restructure to improve the bottom line with sales numbers like that. So, you haven't noticed that gasoline is at $3.50 per gallon lately and how that alone has effected companies and that ObamaCare is going to bankrupt more companies. I guess you can't understand that for this company, they knew that they couldn't sustain under the current economics conditions. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26085824 United States 11/18/2012 10:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rail Road Union memer here Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17112172 Do most of you realize, I have to pay union dues or the railroad fires me. Yes, the company itself will fire me. Im not disagreeing that the union memers should of taken that cut to keep their jobs. Im not disagreeing that unions have fucked a lot of things up. Please keep in mind that I need to work like the rest and the job I fell into makes me pay dues. If I dont I get fired. The company is forced to do that through law that the labor unions got passed. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26085824 United States 11/18/2012 10:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a bunch of dumb asses!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quoting: Ziggy 1000901 There were no options or time for negotiations, just shut the place and I will show you.......Yea, and I will take all my toys and go home. I guess the 16,000 "Twinkeies" will just walk over the job tree and pick a new one......Just that easy! What a bunch of dumb asses in this economy. The company gave them plenty of warning. The liberal idiots thought it was a bluff. |
Ralph--a house dog User ID: 25802009 United States 11/18/2012 10:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think that just applies to the union workers. Probably non union employees could get unemployment because they did not strike, but then maybe it is not the same in every state? "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night.....Rage, rage against the dying of the light"-----Dylan Thomas HIS NAME IS SETH RICH [link to biblicalselfdefense.com] [link to forum.1111ers.blog] Always remember that "for the greater good" will not include YOU. "Who decides?" ---Robert A. Heinlein -'Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.'—Benjamin Franklin [link to www.westcoasttruth.com] The only thing worth paying full retail for is pantyhose. You cannot do all of the good the world needs, but the world needs all of the good you can do. |
LOL User ID: 28041941 United States 11/18/2012 10:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Take it from someone who has been laid off and BEEN THERE -- rarely does anyone qualify for all of that stuff! After being laid off, I got a whopping $240 per week to cover all expenses plus $4 per week (a jar of pickles) in food stamps. I do not qualify for section 8 but wouldn't want to go there (druggies, wackos, etc.) anyway. I do have an "Obamaphone" but only because of the "giant" food stamp award. I don't qualify for or receive any of that stuff you listed. I have no health insurance, no vehicle, etc. I'm not whining, just saying. Maybe my skin is the wrong color to receive benefits? (I'm white) For the past 9 months (2 semesters), I have been in college retraining for a new career (4.0 GPA) since my industry has gone to INDIA. Now the UE extension will be cut off at the end of the year, and I have no idea how I will survive and pay for school. The people who were laid off before me received UE benefits for as long as 3 years! Not everyone who receives assistance is some n'er-do-well. This is the first time EVER I have received any help. I have worked since I was 16, and for many years I have worked 2 or even 3 jobs. My tax dollars have certainly gone into the system. I'm just tired of people ragging on those who are temporarily down on their luck. Look around -- you KNOW this economy sucks, and you KNOW our jobs are going overseas. Don't fall into the "class warfare" trap TPTB want you in and attack your fellow citizens. It's exactly what TPTB want. |
LOL User ID: 28041941 United States 11/18/2012 10:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Take it from someone who has been laid off and BEEN THERE -- rarely does anyone qualify for all of that stuff! After being laid off, I got a whopping $240 per week to cover all expenses plus $4 per week (a jar of pickles) in food stamps. I do not qualify for section 8 but wouldn't want to go there (druggies, wackos, etc.) anyway. I do have an "Obamaphone" but only because of the "giant" food stamp award. I don't qualify for or receive any of that stuff you listed. I have no health insurance, no vehicle, etc. I'm not whining, just saying. Maybe my skin is the wrong color to receive benefits? (I'm white) For the past 9 months (2 semesters), I have been in college retraining for a new career (4.0 GPA) since my industry has gone to INDIA. Now the UE extension will be cut off at the end of the year, and I have no idea how I will survive and pay for school. The people who were laid off before me received UE benefits for as long as 3 years! Not everyone who receives assistance is some n'er-do-well. This is the first time EVER I have received any help. I have worked since I was 16, and for many years I have worked 2 or even 3 jobs. My tax dollars have certainly gone into the system. I'm just tired of people ragging on those who are temporarily down on their luck. Look around -- you KNOW this economy sucks, and you KNOW our jobs are going overseas. Don't fall into the "class warfare" trap TPTB want you in and attack your fellow citizens. It's exactly what TPTB want. |
chuckle User ID: 10785111 Canada 11/18/2012 10:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a bunch of dumb asses!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quoting: Ziggy 1000901 There were no options or time for negotiations, just shut the place and I will show you.......Yea, and I will take all my toys and go home. I guess the 16,000 "Twinkeies" will just walk over the job tree and pick a new one......Just that easy! What a bunch of dumb asses in this economy. The company gave them plenty of warning. The liberal idiots thought it was a bluff. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26085824 United States 11/18/2012 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Romney promised a lot of things. As a globalist, he would not have delivered on that promise. "Free" trade is what corporations want and that's what their puppets deliver once they get in office. Quoting: Instant Karma My Gosh liberals are STUPID!!! Corporations don't want free trade. They want tariffs, so they can compete. Unless they want to off shore those jobs and ship the products back here, then they want low tariffs. |
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Phennommennonn (OP) Forum Administrator 11/18/2012 10:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You're nuts...we don't know if we want you on our side any more...it's not a compliment..... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17429753 so youre on the communist side....- you can eat it, and wash it down with that koolaid too. political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15793872 United States 11/18/2012 10:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why Hostess blaming labor for bankruptcy smells like bullshit [link to batcountryword.com] From Wiki we see that this isn’t Hostess’s first bankruptcy. In fact, it’s restructured itself about once or twice per decade since the 1970′s –going private, going public, merging with other bakery companies, etc. And that’s not even counting the 2004 bankruptcy in which the company was purchased by a vulture capital firm on borrowed money. From Wiki: [The company emerged from bankruptcy as a private company on February 3, 2009.[12] The plan included a 50 percent equity stake by Ripplewood Holdings and lines/loans by General Electric Capital and GE Capital Markets, Silver Point Finance and Monarch Master Funding.... ...Let’s take a look at that Wiki quote on Hostess’s 2004 bankruptcy again: [T]he company emerged from bankruptcy as a private company on February 3, 2009.[12] The plan included a 50 percent equity stake by Ripplewood Holdings and lines/loans by General Electric Capital and GE Capital Markets, Silver Point Finance and Monarch Master Funding. So, after their 2004 bankruptcy Hostess was owned by a financial firm with outstanding loans. Now, let’s check the Hostess company revenue from that same Wiki article, “$2.798 billion (2008)” — for the record, that’s a “b.” And Yahoo finance states their revenue from 2011 at $2.5 billion. The Hostess Company itself says that its main debt obligations are to former union employee’s pensions, but The New York Times lists its debt as: [The company has more than $850 million of secured debt outstanding. It has more than $180 million in accrued workers compensation liabilities. Another $50 million to $60 million is outstanding to trade creditors, plus $36 million in lease obligations. And now it is going to lay a $75 million debtor-in-possession loan on top of that to provide additional cash. The New York Times notes something else is fishy with this deal: Turns out that Hostess has no treasury department. It apparently doesn’t have anyone who can perform treasury functions at all. The company has asked the bankruptcy court for permission to hire FTI Consulting to do the work. Apparently Hostess does not have much of a finance department either, since FTI is also providing employees for that department. If approved, FTI will provide three people to staff Hostess’ treasury department. The interim treasurer gets monthly fees that work out to an annual salary of $780,000. His two deputies get $660,000 per year, each. The finance department group gets paid hourly rates that top out at $895 per hour. It wouldn’t surprise me if FTI Consulting and Ripplewood (the vultures that own Hostess) have some connection in the past –some people who had worked for both companies and know where the money comes from during a bankruptcy dismantling. If I could find that, it would almost seem like a corporate plot to load Hostess with investor debt, bankrupt it, then pay themselves consulting fees the whole time. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5141990 United States 11/18/2012 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Take it from someone who has been laid off and BEEN THERE -- rarely does anyone qualify for all of that stuff! Quoting: LOL 28041941 After being laid off, I got a whopping $240 per week to cover all expenses plus $4 per week (a jar of pickles) in food stamps. I do not qualify for section 8 but wouldn't want to go there (druggies, wackos, etc.) anyway. I do have an "Obamaphone" but only because of the "giant" food stamp award. I don't qualify for or receive any of that stuff you listed. I have no health insurance, no vehicle, etc. I'm not whining, just saying. Maybe my skin is the wrong color to receive benefits? (I'm white) For the past 9 months (2 semesters), I have been in college retraining for a new career (4.0 GPA) since my industry has gone to INDIA. Now the UE extension will be cut off at the end of the year, and I have no idea how I will survive and pay for school. The people who were laid off before me received UE benefits for as long as 3 years! Not everyone who receives assistance is some n'er-do-well. This is the first time EVER I have received any help. I have worked since I was 16, and for many years I have worked 2 or even 3 jobs. My tax dollars have certainly gone into the system. I'm just tired of people ragging on those who are temporarily down on their luck. Look around -- you KNOW this economy sucks, and you KNOW our jobs are going overseas. Don't fall into the "class warfare" trap TPTB want you in and attack your fellow citizens. It's exactly what TPTB want. Thank you! Because half of these buttheads don't get that they are entitled to unemployment as it is a company expense. Nor do they realize exactly how little it really is but I tend to believe half of these people live in lala land anyway. They are fucking theirselves and their family, neighbors, friends...'Slaves' right into the screwed future that we are heading towards. It's gonna be down right sick watching it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5141990 United States 11/18/2012 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Romney promised a lot of things. As a globalist, he would not have delivered on that promise. "Free" trade is what corporations want and that's what their puppets deliver once they get in office. Quoting: Instant Karma My Gosh liberals are STUPID!!! Corporations don't want free trade. They want tariffs, so they can compete. Unless they want to off shore those jobs and ship the products back here, then they want low tariffs. Free trade/ Fair trade do we know the difference? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28026676 United States 11/18/2012 11:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Would you want to take a pay cut because your board of directors bankrupted a NATIONWIDE company? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18260563 Fuck Hostess. And good for their employees refusing to take the 8% pay cut. I would do the same, union or not. The economy may be poor, but I would lose my job before I let an employer who BLEW HIS MONEY, go and take it out on me, the employee, via pay cuts. There are jobs if you want to work. Sure, may not be in your field, or of the same pay, but there are jobs out there. In the short term I could live with not having my "dream job" to give my employer a big "FUCK YOU" when they bankrupted their selves and want to take it out on me. |
Phennommennonn (OP) Forum Administrator 11/18/2012 11:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FO dan :TSfuckyou: political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |