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No more Twinkies
Jace:
The thing is, sometimes stuff like this does have to happen. Otherwise what is even the point of the unions? If all it takes is a company threatening to lay off a bunch of employees for them to be forced to take a shitty deal just to have a job then the union is just the useless middleman between the employee getting screwed and the employer screwing.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 16 Nov 2012, 20:06 ---Anyone who believes that there isn't some bakery out there that's going to buy these names (and recipes) and take up their manufacture doesn't understand the term "liquidation".
And it wasn't the teamsters - they'd settled on a rotten deal two weeks ago. It was the baker's union. The company was offering over 30 percent cuts in pay and benefits just to keep your job... and we're climbing out of a recession?
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The question, though, is whether or not the unions in question (and the distributors and other debtors) might sue to prevent that liquidation from happening.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Jace on 17 Nov 2012, 02:05 ---If all it takes is a company threatening to lay off a bunch of employees for them to be forced to take a shitty deal just to have a job
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That is only relevant if the company has a choice; if the company is going down there may be no way for it to do what the unions want, and no amount of posturing will change that.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 17 Nov 2012, 06:34 ---I've never actually had a twinkie before, and now I wish I had.
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You're not missing much, trust me.
Carl-E:
Haven't had one in over ten years. My wife will occasionally get a cupcake or hoho's (let's say about once a month, shall we?)
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