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Originally Posted by Targan
I'm confused. If Twinkies are such an awesome snack (they certainly seem pretty popular with the American and Canadian members of this board) why is the manufacturer going under?
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Before I post this, I want to say that the following is highly politicized (in terms of labor v. right-to-work negotiations, etc.) because the whole situation
is - I am not spoiling for a politics fight.
The union that works the Hostess/Merita Bread etc. plants basically pushed for a bargaining agreement that at the end of the day was ultimately unsustainable. Management told the employees recently that if things continued on like this, it would trigger a company shutdown, and that they (the employees) would have to give up elements of the bargaining agreement, but if they didn't and went on strike, the company could basically cease to exist fiscally because what the Union wanted wasn't monetarily sustainable nor responsible.
The Union's response was "Oh yeah? You don't have the
guts to let the company go down!"
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and here we are, one dead corporation later.