Thread: Twinkies

Originally Posted by earcutter

***UPDATE***

Wow Gents: just wow...

If you read today's obscure news you'll find that they were raiding the staffs pensions to keep the company solvent. That's just stealing if you ask me!

More importantly!! For the first time (for me anyway) you hear that that is exactly why the union was putting up the fight!

If that really is the case - and seemingly it is -> the Union was 100% right!!

I read the story and really began to question if more regulation is really wrong! It reeks of the United States government dipping into our social security! Hope the man never goes broke .

My friend in NJ, who recently retired after driving for wonderbread for decades, said that they hadn't paid into the pension fund in years. They just stopped paying some time back. Indeed that was one of the contentions between the unions and the company. The teamsters signed on in spite of that but the bakers were not going to continue under those circumstances.