Thread: Twinkies

Originally Posted by Crotalus

Another recent thread blamed textile deaths in the recent fire on the absence of Unions.

Does anyone believe that the death of Hostess and the 18,000 jobs lost was the result of anything but Union greed?

The way I understood the issue: sales of twinkies have been in so much decline that the company was not profitable anymore. Management wanted the rest of the employees to take a drastic paycut

For many employees, taking a big paycut is not an option because they're already having problems keeping afloat.
Add to that that management didn't want to share the paycuts.
Add to that that management didn't even have a plan to make things better. So this was probably not going to be the last paycut either.

How is this exactly union greed?
The world doesn't really want twinkies anymore. Not as much as in the past.

The employees had to decide whether they wanted to keep management cushy while dying the death of a thousand paycuts. they decided management would go down with them.