Hostess To Reopen For Business
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they won't outsource all of the jobs, they need us to spend, it is the way of our economy at present... however, if push came to shove and no one could afford it, we would evolve the system, human beings have a way of overcoming when there is breath left in our body...we adapt in even the worst of conditions.
I understand the point he is making. It is a moot point.
Then the Zombie Apocalypse will be upon us.
The New Prime Minister after World War Z begins:
nice hair...and well dressed, see there's hopeThen the Zombie Apocalypse will be upon us.
The New Prime Minister after World War Z begins:
... And all this because of the humble twinkie.
I don't know whether I should blame the striking union at Hostess or the twinkie itself.
I don't know whether I should blame the striking union at Hostess or the twinkie itself.
it's all three, poor business management, twinkie avoidance due to death by twinkie and union inability to foresee hard-assed, inflexible bargaining due to profit loss due to death by twinkie...
it's a circle...lol
The investment company that bought out Twinkie land and threw out the unions is closing the one plant it had reopened with great fanfare last summer.
Yeah, they broke the company's back again. The story says workers were making $15 an hour with a union contract.........
Hostess Brands said Wednesday it will close its Schiller Park bakery, where Twinkies and other iconic sweets have been produced for 84 years, affecting about 400 employees.
Union officials said they were notified of the closure on the same day they were set to start negotiating a new labor contract. About 280 of the workers had voted to unionize in May.
The plant, among only four remaining Hostess bakeries in the country and the last left in Illinois, is expected to close Oct. 19. Twinkies were invented in the Chicago area in 1930.
Donald Woods, president of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 1, said he learned about the plant closure when he met with company officials to negotiate a labor agreement.
“We were shocked,” Woods said. Union members average about $15 an hour. “It's devastating for them,” he said.
Workers in Indianapolis and Georgia also voted to join the union earlier this year, Woods said. The same union unit that represents workers in Schiller Park also covers workers in Indianapolis and their contracts were both being negotiated at the same time.
Hostess re-opened the Illinois facility in July of last year following the snack brands’ $410 million purchase by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. The famous line of treats was bought out of bankruptcy following the old Hostess' bitter dispute with its main employee union
Eighty-five of the 400 workers are employed “on a contingent basis,” according to Kansas City-based Hostess. Severance packages and job placement services are being offered to employees, the company said.
Local union President Woods that some workers might be able to get jobs at the Indiana facility, which he says the company is not planning to close, but it's unclear how many positions are available. The union represents about 175 people there.
Workers on break outside the Schiller Park factory Wednesday afternoon said the company summoned them to meetings Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning to inform them of the closing.
Those approached by a reporter said they were instructed by the company not to speak to the press and said they were afraid they could lose their jobs before the closure date if they were quoted by name. They said they have been working 12-hour days in two shifts.
Twinkies and other Hostess treats were off store shelves for eight months before the company was revived.
During that hiatus, competitors introduced knock-offs that appear to be hurting Twinkie sales.
Hostess Twinkie plant in Schiller Park closes after 84 years - Chicago Tribune
Yeah, they broke the company's back again. The story says workers were making $15 an hour with a union contract.........
Hostess Brands said Wednesday it will close its Schiller Park bakery, where Twinkies and other iconic sweets have been produced for 84 years, affecting about 400 employees.
Union officials said they were notified of the closure on the same day they were set to start negotiating a new labor contract. About 280 of the workers had voted to unionize in May.
The plant, among only four remaining Hostess bakeries in the country and the last left in Illinois, is expected to close Oct. 19. Twinkies were invented in the Chicago area in 1930.
Donald Woods, president of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 1, said he learned about the plant closure when he met with company officials to negotiate a labor agreement.
“We were shocked,” Woods said. Union members average about $15 an hour. “It's devastating for them,” he said.
Workers in Indianapolis and Georgia also voted to join the union earlier this year, Woods said. The same union unit that represents workers in Schiller Park also covers workers in Indianapolis and their contracts were both being negotiated at the same time.
Hostess re-opened the Illinois facility in July of last year following the snack brands’ $410 million purchase by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. The famous line of treats was bought out of bankruptcy following the old Hostess' bitter dispute with its main employee union
Eighty-five of the 400 workers are employed “on a contingent basis,” according to Kansas City-based Hostess. Severance packages and job placement services are being offered to employees, the company said.
Local union President Woods that some workers might be able to get jobs at the Indiana facility, which he says the company is not planning to close, but it's unclear how many positions are available. The union represents about 175 people there.
Workers on break outside the Schiller Park factory Wednesday afternoon said the company summoned them to meetings Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning to inform them of the closing.
Those approached by a reporter said they were instructed by the company not to speak to the press and said they were afraid they could lose their jobs before the closure date if they were quoted by name. They said they have been working 12-hour days in two shifts.
Twinkies and other Hostess treats were off store shelves for eight months before the company was revived.
During that hiatus, competitors introduced knock-offs that appear to be hurting Twinkie sales.
Hostess Twinkie plant in Schiller Park closes after 84 years - Chicago Tribune
The union could alwaysput their money where their mouths are and buy into the company or buy the closed plant and ruin it themselves.
That would be a tough go as the article says the new Management screwed up as competitors jumped in and grabbed the market whilst the Union hating company tried to figure a way out of paying anyone a decent wage.
Of course they could always go and set up shop in Libertarian Land and be free from pesky Unions and other regulations.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0&feature=player_embedded
I think this time looks to be bad timing. The bankruptcy process caused the stuff to be removed from the shelves and the consumers went for replacements or alternatives. So the company likely underestimated the market which they would have available. Had they been paying reasonable wages, they likely would not have had unions.
A union does not destroy a company bad management destroys a company.
Poor babies can't use illegals anymore and they screwed the union to get a
deal for more profits for themselves at the expense of their workforce here is
one person who wouldn't buy a thing they are selling. And no I am not in a
union I am a farmer. Statements that lead with supposed news headlines
are always suspect with me. The header was more propaganda than
informative
Poor babies can't use illegals anymore and they screwed the union to get a
deal for more profits for themselves at the expense of their workforce here is
one person who wouldn't buy a thing they are selling. And no I am not in a
union I am a farmer. Statements that lead with supposed news headlines
are always suspect with me. The header was more propaganda than
informative