If it ain't union-made, it ain't a Twinkie

[derby378]

A little perspective here.

After a change in management, the CEO of Hostess Foods ran the business into the ground, forcing unions to accept concession after concession. When one of the unions finally stood up to Hostess's CEO and said he was going to treat workers like decent human beings, the CEO pulled the plug on Hostess, exercising a "nuclear option: on the union and putting those workers into the street - while awarding huge post-bankruptcy bonuses to himself and his starched-suit cronies.

How many of them are going to accept non-union jobs at the new plants being opened by the new owners of Hostess to start producing Twinkies again? What will their pay and benefits be like? Will their hours be cut with the excuse that Obamacare is cutting into corporate profits? How many ordinary people will give a single damn about this, just as long as they can feast on as many Twinkies as they want?

If you buy another package of Twinkies when they finally hit store shelves, I can't blame you. Just think for a moment about the circumstances under which that Twinkie was made, and if the conditions are better or worse for the employees who created it.

[Buzz Clik]

1. If it's a Twinkie, it ain't goin' in my mouth.

Please unionize, but how about making some real food?

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Eerily reminiscent of Stella Doro.

>>>Buyout, strike and closing
In 2006, Brynwood Partners bought the Stella D'oro Biscuit Co. from Kraft Foods.[4][9] On August 14, 2008, two weeks after their contract expired, 138 workers of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, Local 50, went on strike citing proposed pay and benefit cuts, and later picketed the company's attempt to bring in replacement workers.[10][11][12][13]
After more than 11 months on striking by its workers, the company was ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to reinstate the workers, give them back pay, and restart collective bargaining.[14] That same month, the company announced it would close its facility.[15] In September 2009, Brynwood announced the sale of Stella D'oro to Lance, a large manufacturer of snack foods, which intended to relocate Stella D'Oro's production to a non-union facility in Ashland, Ohio.[3][16]
Brynwood earned negative attention for its role in the work stoppage and sale of Stella D'oro, including a reference in an op-ed piece by the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka, published in The Wall Street Journal in April 2010.[17]


Longtime Bronx bakery for sale
On September 8, 2009, Lance announced it was purchasing the Stella D'oro brand as well as certain manufacturing equipment and inventory. It thereafter began manufacturing Stella D'oro products in Lance's Ashland, Ohio, bakery. The Bronx manufacturing location was closed in late fall 2009, and, the physical plant and property went up for sale in spring 2010.
In early September 2010, a 2 to 1 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board affirmed the June 2009 decision of an administrative law judge that Stella D'oro violated federal labor law by refusing to furnish detailed financial statements to the workers' union to support claims of needing contract concessions to survive. The board ordered the company to furnish back pay with interest, as well as benefits for the two-month period after employees offered to return to work in May 2009, and before the company took them back in July.[18]
The buildings were demolished in June of 2012. A BJ's store will replace the complex.
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