Let Them Eat Cake: As Hostess Workers Get Hurt, Bakery Union Bosses (& Their Kids) Do Well

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 21st at 09:00 AM  | 

Eighteen thousand Americans are now without jobs to put bread on their tables (pun intended). Yet, Frank Hurt will not be hurt in the least by the strike he led his members into taking, or the resulting unemployment of both his members, as well as other Hostess employees.

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As Union Bosses Spin Twinkies’ Demise, Bakers’ Union Boss Admits Union Knew Hostess Would Die

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 17th at 06:00 PM  | 

With the demise of 18,000 jobs weighing on their shoulders (though certainly not their consciousness’) and just in time for the Sunday morning talk shows union bosses are now trying desperately to point fingers at the victim (and Mitt Romney) for the union’s strike that ultimately destroyed Hostess and its 18,000 jobs. This blame game is going on despite the fact that the bakers’ union | Read More »

Ding Dong Bakers’ Union May Kill Off Twinkies And 18,500 Jobs Once And For All

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 13th at 01:30 PM  | 

Last January, Hostess Brands, the company that built such iconic lunch-bag stuffers as Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread filed for bankruptcy. In an era of greater competition and a more health conscious public, Hostess’ problems stem, in part, to the heavy costs its union contracts have placed on the company. Now, as the company and union leaders have hammered out tentative contracts that would | Read More »