Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (6,068 posts)
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Hostess closing Seattle bakery; 110 workers affected
Source: King5 News and Associated Press
Hostess Brands Inc. is permanently closing three bakeries following a nationwide strike by its bakers union.
The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Monday that the strike has prevented it from producing and delivering products, and it is closing bakeries in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The facilities employ 627 workers.
Thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike Nov. 9 to protest cuts to wages and benefits under a new contract offer, which the union rejected in September. Union officials say the company stopped contributing to workers' pensions last year.
Hostess has argued that workers must make concessions as it tries to improve its financial position. The privately-held food maker filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade. Hostess cited increasing pension and medical costs for employees as one of the drivers behind its latest filing.
Read more: http://www.king5.com/news/Hostess-closing-Seattle-bakery-two-others-178996421.html
Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, operates 36 bakeries nationwide and has about 18,300 employees. It warned earlier this month that the strike, by about 30 percent of its workforce, could lead to bakery closures.
"We deeply regret this decision, but we have repeatedly explained that we will close facilities that are no longer able to produce and deliver products because of a work stoppage -- and that we will close the entire company if widespread strikes cripple our business," Hostess Brands CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said.
Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, operates 36 bakeries nationwide and has about 18,300 employees. It warned earlier this month that the strike, by about 30 percent of its workforce, could lead to bakery closures.
"We deeply regret this decision, but we have repeatedly explained that we will close facilities that are no longer able to produce and deliver products because of a work stoppage -- and that we will close the entire company if widespread strikes cripple our business," Hostess Brands CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said.
They're just doing it to hurt Obama because he's black. Never mind that his policies and regulations are absolute disasters for the economy and everyone that has to work for a living.
6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/6125-proposed-regulations-and-notifications-posted-last-90-days-average-68-day)
No mo Ho-Ho's for obama.
No mo Ho-Ho's for obama.
He still has the main Ho-Ho - Michelle.
I thought Michelle banned Twinkies and Ho-Ho's.
This is the same shit that happened in 1979 under Carter I (Obama II?) to the International Harvester Company.
IH was struggling under Carternomics, and the UAW decided they wanted more, and went on strike for 6+ months.
In the end, Tenneco bought IH, and merged it with J. I. Case.
I hope every f'n one of those union bastards starve to death!!!!
Ironically, WA is one of the states that just legalized pot.
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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:03 PM
shanti (16,296 posts)
15. just like the huge Campbell's soup factory here
in Sacramento that'll be closing. Except Campbell's is laying off 700, and this area has always had a high unemployment rate. not good
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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:12 PM
rdking647 (2,068 posts)
25. no matter who you blame the fact is thousands of employees may soon be out of work
the company is bankrupt. if your an emploee you have a simple choice. work for less or lose you jobs. thats it period. in bankruptcy it becomes the courts responsibility on what to do to maximize return to creditors. if the only way to continue as a company is to reduce wages then teh emplyees have the choice of pay cut or no job, It may suck but thats the only 2 choices.pesonally Im of teh opinion that the employees are pretty stupid to strike. all a strike does is pretty much guarantee a trip to the unemployment line. the company will liquidate,the recipes will be sold to other companies and will be made at new bakeries. the current employees get squat
Elections have consequences... I won.
Barack Hussein Obama - 2009
Funny video on weaselzippers.us
Some media station decides to "interview" some now former employees.
Whining and P&M'n starts right off the bat.
They were told, they were warned, they were greedy and believed what the yewnion told them.
Suckers.
Welcome to a fundamentally transformed America DUmbasses.
I want America to feel pain, lots of it. Pain is necessary so that one knows when one is doing something stupid. Pain is a necessary for survival.
Great vid at link.
Company states that if the strike hurts the business, they will close everything.
http://www.freep.com/VideoNetwork/1965133952001/Hostess-plans-to-close-3-bakeries-due-to-strikes&odyssey=mod|video||umbrella
Hostess to liquidate if bakers' strike continues through Thursdayhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/10021820124
Source: CNNMoney
Hostess to liquidate if bakers' strike continues through Thursday
By James O'Toole @CNNMoney November 14, 2012: 6:01 PM ET
-snip-
Hostess Brands said Wednesday that it will go into liquidation unless bakers striking in protest against a new contract imposed in bankruptcy court return to work by the end of the day Thursday.
"We simply do not have the financial resources to survive an ongoing national strike," Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn said in a statement.
The liquidation would result in Hostess' nearly 18,000 workers losing their jobs. The bakers' union represents around 5,000.
The union did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, but has called the concessions demanded in the new contract "outrageous."
-snip-
Ken Burch (29,046 posts)
1. So drop the demands for concessions and settle with the strikers. Not rocket science.
I think the Twinkie fumes may have warped management's brains.
xfundy (2,343 posts)
3. Would be even better if the bakers and workers
opened their own shops, making actual "food" instead of a mass of chemicals with HGCS, artificial flavorings, etc.
Ken Burch (29,046 posts)
10. There's something to that...let Hostess go under, then take over its plants
and run them as health baked goods co-ops. They could probably get funding for that.
In fact, that's what should happen in MOST outsourced U.S. business plants...closed factories, bakeries, stores, what have you. Run them as co-ops and create a humane, dignified, democratic business model.
Actually, if possible, the strikers should occupy the Hostess plants NOW...and prepare to run them themselves a.s.a.p. if Hostess chooses to close them.
Ken Burch (29,046 posts)
10. There's something to that...let Hostess go under, then take over its plants
and run them as health baked goods co-ops. They could probably get funding for that.
In fact, that's what should happen in MOST outsourced U.S. business plants...closed factories, bakeries, stores, what have you. Run them as co-ops and create a humane, dignified, democratic business model.
Actually, if possible, the strikers should occupy the Hostess plants NOW...and prepare to run them themselves a.s.a.p. if Hostess chooses to close them.
Why not just send the armed Obamagruppen in to seize their property now and get it over with? ******* thugs.
Ken Burch (29,046 posts)
10. There's something to that...let Hostess go under, then take over its plants
and run them as health baked goods co-ops. They could probably get funding for that.
In fact, that's what should happen in MOST outsourced U.S. business plants...closed factories, bakeries, stores, what have you. Run them as co-ops and create a humane, dignified, democratic business model.
Actually, if possible, the strikers should occupy the Hostess plants NOW...and prepare to run them themselves a.s.a.p. if Hostess chooses to close them.
Ken Burch (29,046 posts)
10. There's something to that...let Hostess go under, then take over its plants
and run them as health baked goods co-ops. They could probably get funding for that.
Ken Burch (29,046 posts)
10. There's something to that...let Hostess go under, then take over its plants
and run them as health baked goods co-ops. They could probably get funding for that.
A health food co-op? Yeah, that's a great idea, go for it.... :rotf:
This is the same shit that happened in 1979 under Carter I (Obama II?) to the International Harvester Company.
IH was struggling under Carternomics, and the UAW decided they wanted more, and went on strike for 6+ months.
In the end, Tenneco bought IH, and merged it with J. I. Case.
I hope every f'n one of those union bastards starve to death!!!!
The only way to improve on this brilliant idea would be to go on the honor system or allow consumers to decide what to pay you for the products after consumption.
I see that the DUmmy is not familiar with the concept of brand recognition.
If Hostess goes under, their name goes with them. Your unionized drug addict bakers would have to come up with a product name and a marketing staff that pays homage to Madison ave. to get the name on every bodies tongue.
It seems to me that they would become part of the 1%.
BanTheGOP (908 posts)
35. Owners are worth, cumulatively, a couple of billion dollars
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This is why we need an EMERGENCY Executive Order from President Obama to prevent businesses from closing down without permission from the government to prevent job loss, especially when Obamacare is taken into consideration which the union is trying to preserve. This is intolerable, and the owners can easily cough up a few bucks to prevent this atrocity.
Banthegop, do you ever read the shit you write before you post it?
How about the president issue an executive order reminding the striking workers that they should be happy they have a job in this bad economy and to get their lazy ungrateful asses back to work or they will be fired without any unemployment benefits?
Twinkie Maker Hostess to Close
By RACHEL FEINTZEIG
Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of iconic treats such as Twinkies and traditional pantry staple Wonder Bread, is shuttering its plants and liquidating its 82-year-old business.
A victim of changing consumer tastes, high commodity costs and, most importantly, strained labor relations, Hostess ultimately was brought to its knees by a national strike orchestrated by its second-largest union.
The work stoppage, launched Nov. 9 by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union to protest a fresh labor contract, affected about two-thirds of Hostess's 36 plants. The strike was making it impossible for the Irving, Tex., company to continue producing its baked goods, Chief Executive Gregory Rayburn said.
The CEO, a restructuring professional who ascended to the top of the company after its former leader abruptly resigned earlier this year, said the liquidation will take months but require few workers.
Hostess Brands, Inc.—founded as Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) in 1930—was the largest wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States, and is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's brands. For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. In 2009, after it emerged from a 2004 bankruptcy, the name was changed to Hostess Brands, Inc., and the headquarters moved to Irving, Texas.[2] Hostess Brands, Inc., declared Chapter 11 again in 2012.
Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of iconic treats such as Twinkies and traditional pantry staple Wonder Bread, is shuttering its plants and liquidating its 82-year-old business.
Also affects all of the drivers and private contractors that stock the market shelves.
The DUches are for slavery. If owners and producers could just be forced to work for the betterment of people that do not work this crazy socialism thing just might work.
I have not had a Hostess product in forty years but in elementary and junior high I would get a Twinkie or pie in my lunch everyday. I have a feeling that leftists are going to learn that 1+1 does indeed equal 2.
GOBUCKS, possibly Bimbo Bakeries out of Mexico. Very large. They've been snapping up American bakeries.
It's astonishing that Ken Burch and the other Commies think that it really works the way they envision. Company: We're going to have to shut down. Employees: OK. We'll squat here. Fire up the ovens and bake some healthy whole grain Melba Toast for the DUmp!
I'll be shocked if I cannot find Ho-Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies after maybe a short interruption in deliveries.
They're just too popular and too valuable.
Hostess may disappear, but someone (maybe a new entity formed by current owners) will buy the company and its brands.
Then they'll shut down the unionized facilities and resume production at the other locations.
The blue state neckbeards will go on the dole and the people who want to work will be back on the job.
Actually, thinking about this has me craving a Twinkies lunch for today.
My mind was just wandering while I was reading this thread, (I work nights and just woke up) and the thought that obama and his minions are taking apart the big companies and destroying them one major company ate a time. But since the election is over it seems they have escalated the rate of destruction. Does that make any sense or am I still in a dream state?
Since the news broke, people who like them are probably hoarding them. You guys can have my share, I have never been into the supper sweet stuff.
I don't believe I've dined upon a Hostess Ho-Ho or whatever in my life; sweet stuff doesn't appeal to me.
But when I head to town later today to get a haircut, I'm going to the convenience store to pick up a package, so as to get a taste of vanishing Americana.
geckosfeet (7,827 posts)
1. That fine American institution of sugary snacks and horrible white bread going out of business!?
That's a shame.
Loss of jobs is not good - but a business based on providing people with terrible horrible disgusting food items was doomed from the start. It's not good when your customers all develop diabetes and other diet related disorders.
Sedona (1,410 posts)
4. Its sad for the employees
but honestly, this is shit food that no life form should ingest. Maybe if Hostess hadn't manufactured empty calories that poisoned our kids they would still be around. I can only hope this becomes a trend with other junk food companies.
Sunlei (370 posts)
32. perhaps the employees can take over the business
Or open new better quality breads companies.
bake real cakes and breads without those shelf life extenders and corn syrups of doom.
hlthe2b (44,613 posts)
8. How many type II diabetics owe their lot to Hostess?
Just sayin.....
hlthe2b (44,613 posts)
92. GOod Lord... Hostess and its fiber free highly processed white bread and sugary products are
emblematic of the very diet that has caused obesity and its accompanying risk for type II diabetes. Did twinkies cause it? No, but eating this crap to ultimate obesity, along with our society's sedentary lifestyle-- leads to insulin resistance. Inform YOURSELF.
Floyd_Gondolli (687 posts)
114. Of course that's not what I wrote
We get it. You're from Colorado. Fittest state in the country. You climb 14k peaks backwards and can do 1,000 push ups with one hand. You look down on all the lowland types with their BBQ and snack cakes. Message received.
DCBob (14,186 posts)
62. I suspect that is their plan to liquidate and reacquire the trademarks and start a new company..
which will be non-union.
some gems from the hostess going out of business thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021830337
apparently it was hostess' fault for making snack foods.
DCBob (14,186 posts)
62. I suspect that is their plan to liquidate and reacquire the trademarks and start a new company..
which will be non-union.
I don't believe I've dined upon a Hostess Ho-Ho or whatever in my life; sweet stuff doesn't appeal to me.
But when I head to town later today to get a haircut, I'm going to the convenience store to pick up a package, so as to get a taste of vanishing Americana.
Oh my yes.
There's many people nationally who make a living from Hostess, as salesmen and delivery drivers.
I know of three in this area, and I don't suspect they're the sorts of jobs that are included in that 18,500.
I'll be surprised if panic buying hasn't stripped the shelves bare.
Expect a thriving secondary market on eBay.
Another gift from the jug-eared muslim - $10 Twinkies.
and a tin foil theory
DCBob (14,186 posts)
62. I suspect that is their plan to liquidate and reacquire the trademarks and start a new company..
which will be non-union.
The offer by Hostess:
The Union Gives
1) 8% pay cut in 2013
2) 3% pay raise in 2015
3) 1% pay raise in 2016
The Union Gets
1) 25% ownership of the company
2) 25% control of the Board of Directors
The union decided to **** over 18,000 workers for the 5,000 idiots they represented. **** unions.
geckosfeet (7,827 posts)Hostess was founded in 1930 retard! But yes you're right it was doomed as is every other business making a profit with you dickheads running the country!
1. That fine American institution of sugary snacks and horrible white bread going out of business!?
That's a shame.
Loss of jobs is not good - but a business based on providing people with terrible horrible disgusting food items was doomed from the start. It's not good when your customers all develop diabetes and other diet related disorders.
Why do liberals hate twinkies and hohos? Perhaps hostess should start its own ad campaign ala big bird style lol
Hostess was founded in 1930 retard! But yes you're right it was doomed as is every other business making a profit with you dickheads running the country!
Show them killing Twinkie the Kid, perhaps?
(http://grouchymuffin.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/twinkie-the-kid.jpg)
I don't think that's tin foil at all.
Who ultimately acquires the trademarks and recipes could be any similar company.
If any of the Hostess brands can be sold at a profit, someone will buy them and do it, and it's almost certain that it will be non-union.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=excedrin&_sacat=0&_from=R40
If Hostess went out of business because people didn't want sugary junk food, the DUmmies might have a point. But they didn't. They went out of business because the workers were greedy. They were offered a guaranteed raise for the next three years, but that wasn't enough. Does anyone know what the actual union demands were?The company asked them to take a 2% pension cut from what i understand...... :banghead:
The company asked them to take a 2% pension cut from what i understand...... :banghead:
Just got back from the grocery store and the Hostess shelf is empty, as is the wonder bread.
It's incredible.
Hostess survived the Great Depression, but it's not surviving Barack Milhous.
With Hostess shutdown, boxes of Twinkies, Ho Hos going for $100 and more on eBay
One box of Twinkies has a starting bid of $49.99, with a “buy it now†price of $89.99......
So basically only the "rich" are going to be able to afford to buy black market twinkies?
Bill Ayers is a member of the Unions Board of Directors?
IIRC, it was just one of the unions--the bakers' union--that killed Hostess. The Teamsters and all of the other unions had signed onto the deal. So, the bakers' union is probably on a Teamsters blacklist. Not terribly smart. :hammer:
It's incredible.
Hostess survived the Great Depression, but it's not surviving Barack Milhous.
Damn you, primitives, damn you all to Hell.
I suppose one can blame the demise of Hostess to disruptive labor union practices that break a business, but part of the blame lies on the shoulders of the primitives, who enthusiastically support such practices.
I'm supposed to get a haircut at 3:00 this afternoon, and so was going to wait until then to get something I've never had in my life, a Hostess Ho-Ho, at the convenience store in town.
On the Head of St. John the Baptist, that's God's honest truth; franksolich in his whole life has never consumed a Hostess product. Nothing against the company; it just happens franksolich doesn't have a sweet tooth.
But after hearing all the news about such products rapidly evaporating from store shelves, at 1:30 I hopped into the car and dashed to town.
Remember where I live; there's not exactly many people out here on the eastern slope of the Sandhills of Nebraska.
I got to town, dashed into the store, rushed to the Hostess display shelves.....and no Hostess Ho-Hos.
There were still a couple of packages of Hostess "snowballs" (?--not sure) and two of pastry, and one of two orange cupcakes.
I bought the last item, the orange cupcakes, as I wasn't too enamored of the other choices.
But franksolich got no Ho-Hos. Not a Ho-Ho.
franksolich is going to go to his grave never having tried that American original, a Hostess Ho-Ho.
Damn the ****ing primitives all to Hell.:ownit:
One box of Twinkies has a starting bid of $49.99,I assume a "box" is a bunch of packages, but still..for Twinkies that's crazy.
Damn you, primitives, damn you all to Hell.
and no Hostess Ho-Hos.
There were still a couple of packages of Hostess "snowballs" (?--not sure) and two of pastry, and one of two orange cupcakes.
I bought the last item, the orange cupcakes, as I wasn't too enamored of the other choices.
But franksolich got no Ho-Hos. Not a Ho-Ho.
franksolich is going to go to his grave never having tried that American original, a Hostess Ho-Ho.
Damn the ****ing primitives all to Hell.:ownit:
Frank -
The Sno-Balls were always my favorite. They use to come in a package with one white and one pink Sno-Ball. They were delicious. That was back when they had twice the flavor and half the sugar.
All the kids would eat the pink one first.
I saw they're coated with coconut.
Sorry, but no.
I don't like coconut either. I made an exception for the Sno-Balls. They use to be that good.
Tim Collins of Ripplewood, was a prominent Democrat, a position which allowed him to get involved in the first bankruptcy process in the first place, due to his proximity with the Teamsters' long-term heartthrob Dick Gephardt (whose consulting group just happens to also be an equity owner of Hostess).
Liink: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-16/hostess-liquidation-curious-cast-characters-twinkie-tumbles
Damn you, primitives, damn you all to Hell.
I suppose one can blame the demise of Hostess to disruptive labor union practices that break a business, but part of the blame lies on the shoulders of the primitives, who enthusiastically support such practices.
I'm supposed to get a haircut at 3:00 this afternoon, and so was going to wait until then to get something I've never had in my life, a Hostess Ho-Ho, at the convenience store in town.
On the Head of St. John the Baptist, that's God's honest truth; franksolich in his whole life has never consumed a Hostess product. Nothing against the company; it just happens franksolich doesn't have a sweet tooth.
But after hearing all the news about such products rapidly evaporating from store shelves, at 1:30 I hopped into the car and dashed to town.
Remember where I live; there's not exactly many people out here on the eastern slope of the Sandhills of Nebraska.
I got to town, dashed into the store, rushed to the Hostess display shelves.....and no Hostess Ho-Hos.
There were still a couple of packages of Hostess "snowballs" (?--not sure) and two of pastry, and one of two orange cupcakes.
I bought the last item, the orange cupcakes, as I wasn't too enamored of the other choices.
But franksolich got no Ho-Hos. Not a Ho-Ho.
franksolich is going to go to his grave never having tried that American original, a Hostess Ho-Ho.
Damn the ****ing primitives all to Hell.:ownit: