The Hostess-Twinkie who did what to kill it/them thread

[bodecea]

[The Teamsters decided that if they didn't get what they wanted from Hostess, they'd kill the company. Grabbing the big bucks was well worth the risk of having no job at all. You can rest assured the likewise morons at GM and Chrysler will think the same way, for after all didn't they rape and sodomize the company they originally worked for until the death rattle was heard night and day throughout its plants, offices, and dealerships until the Union friendly Democrat, Barack Obama, came in and said I'll rape and sodomize the taxpayers instead so you can still keep your jobs in return for your votes. Obama did it once, the Union knows its guaranteed he'll do it again. The sky's the limit on their wages only because they have the taxpayer at their mercy to subsidize them until they reach infinity. GM's new plan for its business success also includes selling a vehicle for $40,000 that costs GM $89,000 to produce. What a plan. The miraculous fruits of affirmative action at work at GM
Richard Trumka says he's going to send his union goons door to door to convince American businessmen to see the light regarding Obamanomics.]

"Back in September, following acceptance by the Teamsters. the bakers’ union (BCTGM) at bankrupt Hostess brands—makers of the iconic Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder brand breads—rejected a company proposal to help keep the company in business. By a voice vote of its members, the union opened the door to conduct a company-killing strike and potentially putting 18,500 Hostess workers onto the streets.

Well, on Friday, the bakers’ union called its members on strike nationwide. Now the job cuts begin.

On Monday, Hostess permanently closed three of its plants, thanks to the union’s strike:

Hostess Brands permanently closed three bakeries Monday, including a plant in St. Louis where 365 jobs were cut, in response to a bakers’ union strike that started Friday.

The bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder bread said it’s trying to avert liquidating the entire company, and it shuttered three plants that were no longer able to produce and deliver products because of picket lines. The other plant closures are in Seattle and Cincinnati, where a combined 262 jobs were cut."

The Demise of Twinkies? Yes, It’s True. Parasitic Unions Kill Their Hosts (or, in this case, Hostess) | RedState

Leave it to the Right to mourn the Twinkie.

No, we're mourning the 18,000 jobs lost to union greed.

No you're not. You are mourning the Twinkie...that's why all the threads, all the posts, all the pics are about the Twinkie.

 

[daveman]

What a twinkie you are. Management more than doubled their wage, and threatened the people, who put the rubber on the road, with an 8% wage cut. I guess your politics think this is a good deal. So what did the 3X salary CEO come up with? Any new products, or improved products, coming out of Hostess?

You're still a twinkie.

Mindless buffoonery is mindless.

Suck the ass you choose, twinkie.

Looking at reality is not sucking ass, buffoon.

 

[daveman]

Leave it to the Right to mourn the Twinkie.

No, we're mourning the 18,000 jobs lost to union greed.

No you're not. You are mourning the Twinkie...that's why all the threads, all the posts, all the pics are about the Twinkie.

What a stupid woman you are.

 

[Dick Tuck]

What a twinkie you are. Management more than doubled their wage, and threatened the people, who put the rubber on the road, with an 8% wage cut. I guess your politics think this is a good deal. So what did the 3X salary CEO come up with? Any new products, or improved products, coming out of Hostess?

You're still a twinkie.

Management failed Hostess. The union accepted pay and benefit cuts during the last Hostess bankruptcy. Hostess still failed.

So what does management do? They triple CEO salary and then come back and ask for additional pay and benefit cuts.

If you worked for Hostess, what would you do? Accept another pay cut while management jacks up their own salary or just say...enough is enough?

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

So the middle class workers should have sucked ass, while the CEO tripled their salary, and accepted an 8% pay cut. You're a twinkie.

 

[Dick Tuck]

Mindless buffoonery is mindless.

Suck the ass you choose, twinkie.

Looking at reality is not sucking ass, buffoon.

Looking at reality is to understand that a scumbag vulture capitalist gives himself a 3X salary increase, while asking the people who actually put the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut. You're a twinkie.

 

[daveman]

Management failed Hostess. The union accepted pay and benefit cuts during the last Hostess bankruptcy. Hostess still failed.

So what does management do? They triple CEO salary and then come back and ask for additional pay and benefit cuts.

If you worked for Hostess, what would you do? Accept another pay cut while management jacks up their own salary or just say...enough is enough?

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

So the middle class workers should have sucked ass, while the CEO tripled their salary, and accepted an 8% pay cut. You're a twinkie.

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

Leftist SUCK at math.

 

[daveman]

Suck the ass you choose, twinkie.

Looking at reality is not sucking ass, buffoon.

Looking at reality is to understand that a scumbag vulture capitalist gives himself a 3X salary increase, while asking the people who actually put the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut. You're a twinkie.

And now the union has a 100% pay cut.

Striking workers cannot collect unemployment.

Now, retard, which is worse: An 8% pay cut, or a 100% pay cut?

 

[Dick Tuck]

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

So the middle class workers should have sucked ass, while the CEO tripled their salary, and accepted an 8% pay cut. You're a twinkie.

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

Leftist SUCK at math.

The math isn't that hard, twinkie. The CEO didn't try to update the company, or introduce new product, and tripled his salary. He tripled his salary, and told the people putting the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut.

You're a fucking idiot.

 

[JoeB131]

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Sure it does
read a real book on economics

Uh, guy, since the Republicans can't have a presidency without a recession breaking out on their watch, they really don't get to lecture the rest of us on Economics.

My parents used to say, "Democrats bring us wars, Republicans bring us Recessions"

Now they bring us both.

 

[Dick Tuck]

Looking at reality is not sucking ass, buffoon.

Looking at reality is to understand that a scumbag vulture capitalist gives himself a 3X salary increase, while asking the people who actually put the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut. You're a twinkie.

And now the union has a 100% pay cut.

Striking workers cannot collect unemployment.

Now, retard, which is worse: An 8% pay cut, or a 100% pay cut?

What's the CEO's salary, twinkie?

 

[daveman]

So the middle class workers should have sucked ass, while the CEO tripled their salary, and accepted an 8% pay cut. You're a twinkie.

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

Leftist SUCK at math.

The math isn't that hard, twinkie. The CEO didn't try to update the company, or introduce new product, and tripled his salary. He tripled his salary, and told the people putting the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut.

You're a fucking idiot.

And some of the workers decided to give themselves a 100% pay cut, and the other workers who wanted to keep working a pay cut. At least those who didn't vote to strike will collect unemployment.

 

[daveman]

Looking at reality is to understand that a scumbag vulture capitalist gives himself a 3X salary increase, while asking the people who actually put the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut. You're a twinkie.

And now the union has a 100% pay cut.

Striking workers cannot collect unemployment.

Now, retard, which is worse: An 8% pay cut, or a 100% pay cut?

What's the CEO's salary, twinkie?

Nothing, now. Just like the strikers.

 

[JoeB131]

So the middle class workers should have sucked ass, while the CEO tripled their salary, and accepted an 8% pay cut. You're a twinkie.

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

Leftist SUCK at math.

The math isn't that hard, twinkie. The CEO didn't try to update the company, or introduce new product, and tripled his salary. He tripled his salary, and told the people putting the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut.

You're a fucking idiot.

I think we need to re-emphasize the highlighted part. Hostess is selling the same unhealthy shit they sold when I was a kid back in the 1970's. Except that attitudes have changed towards marketting that kind of stuff, especially to children. But Hostess kept going on like nothing had changed, and the folks in the hedge funds just saw, "How do we loot this dying giant for the last dime."

 

[bodecea]

Collecting unemployment is a far larger pay cut.

Leftist SUCK at math.

The math isn't that hard, twinkie. The CEO didn't try to update the company, or introduce new product, and tripled his salary. He tripled his salary, and told the people putting the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut.

You're a fucking idiot.

I think we need to re-emphasize the highlighted part. Hostess is selling the same unhealthy shit they sold when I was a kid back in the 1970's. Except that attitudes have changed towards marketting that kind of stuff, especially to children. But Hostess kept going on like nothing had changed, and the folks in the hedge funds just saw, "How do we loot this dying giant for the last dime."

They are going the way of Kodak and Xerox. They have to stay fresh in their product line. But typically, they and their supporters want to blame others for their failure to keep up in the market place.

 

[Luissa]

Looking at reality is not sucking ass, buffoon.

Looking at reality is to understand that a scumbag vulture capitalist gives himself a 3X salary increase, while asking the people who actually put the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut. You're a twinkie.

And now the union has a 100% pay cut.

Striking workers cannot collect unemployment.

Now, retard, which is worse: An 8% pay cut, or a 100% pay cut?

Um actually they can, especially in cases like this.

 

[rightwinger]

Can any of you union bashers explain why a CEO would triple his own salary while demanding worker cutbacks?

If he was serious....shouldn't he take ZERO salary until the company is out of bankruptcy?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Cracks me up watching the righties here completely ignore the fact that TWINKIES just cannot cut it on a level playing field in the free market.


So they blame Obama for what is obviously the mismanagement.

MORONS,Twinkie is not the ONLY company that has to deal with the cost of HC.

But it is the only bakery company that is blaming that HC program for why they can not compete.

Losers.

post makes no sense s0n.

Righties are sentimental about the demise of the Twinkie but are laughing their asses off that the union got fuckiing pwned. Twinkies cant compete.....close the shit down. Thats how it works.

Eddie specializes in making no sense.

 

[daveman]

Looking at reality is to understand that a scumbag vulture capitalist gives himself a 3X salary increase, while asking the people who actually put the rubber on the road to take an 8% salary cut. You're a twinkie.

And now the union has a 100% pay cut.

Striking workers cannot collect unemployment.

Now, retard, which is worse: An 8% pay cut, or a 100% pay cut?

Um actually they can, especially in cases like this.

Immaterial, really. Unemployment benefits will be far less than the 8% cut.

 

[daveman]

Can any of you union bashers explain why a CEO would triple his own salary while demanding worker cutbacks?

If he was serious....shouldn't he take ZERO salary until the company is out of bankruptcy?

I'm certainly willing to admit that both sides, management and labor, share responsibility.

Are you?

 

[rightwinger]

And now the union has a 100% pay cut.

Striking workers cannot collect unemployment.

Now, retard, which is worse: An 8% pay cut, or a 100% pay cut?

Um actually they can, especially in cases like this.

Immaterial, really. Unemployment benefits will be far less than the 8% cut.

How much of a pay cut did he CEO and Hostess management take?

My guess is that they got a much more generous separation package than the workers did