Wonder who those 18,000+ workers are mad at more, Hostess or their Union ? My guess is that Union leadership won't cut their pay even though they just lost 18,000+ due paying members. Unions played a positive role in working society way back in history, now they just cause more damage to the U.S. workforce, which other countries are thanking the unions for since those jobs are now outside the U.S.

Obama just commented: "Al Qaeda is alive, Twinkies are dead..."

Oh yes, and we need $1.6 Trillion in NEW TAXES...

Obama drones: "Yeah...Yeah..."

Problem solved for Twinkie lovers.

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/Hostess-Twinkie-Recipe.html

Ok what is not mentioned is that top executives at hostess all got large bonuses that added up to millions. Yet, it was the regular workers who were asked to get pay cuts

The usual union haters are spewing their ignorance about unions. According to them unions are evil, unions are always wrong and workers should have no rights, no bargaining power, no union representation. It's amazing how management is always right, faultless and never does any wrong, according to the union haters. The unionization rate for the US is down to 11.8% after more than 30 years of aggressive union busting. Unions are very strong in Germany, they have a big say in their workplace and work conditions; Germany's unionization rate is almost twice ours. German unions have a seat on the board of directors of the companies. Can you ever imagine that happening in the US? Ha, ha, not likely. Canada's unionization rate is at about 29%, Sweden's is about 75%, Finland's is above 80%. Japan's unionization rate is higher than ours. More than 30 years of rabid, biased and slanted anti-union propaganda has really dumbed down the public's awareness of the need for unions. Unions are swiftboated, scapegoated and demonized on a daily basis on hate wing radio, NJ 101.5, Fox Lies and even the main stream corporate controlled media usually highlights negative stories about unions. It is heartening to see Walmart workers finally standing up on their hind legs and demanding union representation.

Yeah those Germans and Swedes are living in the dark ages because of unions. They have little poverty or crime, no slums or polluted rivers and a well paid and educated population

Another Union success story. If Hostess was smart they would close for 30 days, fire everyone, hire new and open on the 31st day. Problem solved. The union has been busted and now they have people who want to work and not be union sheep.

Maybe we Americans will drop some pounds now!

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made this statement in response to the latest news from Hostess:
What’s happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor. Crony capitalism and consistently poor management drove Hostess into the ground, but its workers are paying the price. These workers, who consistently make great products Americans love and have offered multiple concessions, want their company to succeed. They have bravely taken a stand against the corporate race-to-the-bottom. And now they and their communities are suffering the tragedy of a needless layoff. This is wrong. It has to stop. It’s wrecking America.
A total of 18,500 jobs could be lost in the process of this liquidation. The CEO and executives who gave themselves raises, not to mention the Wall Street investors, will emerge just fine. The workers, many of them members of BCTGM and the Teamsters, will suffer the most financially.
Even though we defeated Mitt Romney in his bid for the presidency, his style of economics that he pioneered with Bain Capital still exists, and is playing out in front of our eyes with Hostess.

For the past 8 years, Hostess has been owned by Wall Street investors: so-called “restructuring experts,” managers from other non-baking food companies, and now a “liquidation specialist.”
The Wall Street investors that own Hostess have no interest in the company succeeding – very similar to the situation of Bain Capital and KB Toys in 2000.
Hostess has had six CEO’s in 8 years, none of whom had any experience in the bread or cake baking industry. This, not any action by the unionized workers, led to their failure.
Hostess workers made numerous concessions, including this year when the company stopped making contributions to their pensions. They went on strike because management offered a contract cutting wages and benefits by 27-32 percent.
Despite their troubles, Hostess’ CEO got a 300 percent raise, from $750,000 to $2,250,000. Other top executives have also gotten raises worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Earlier this week when workers at 20 plants went on strike, Hostess management claimed they would close plants in response. In fact, they already had plans to close at least nine plants as part of a company-wide reorganization. The Mayor of St. Louis said of the closings “I was told months ago…”

It was poor management that caused the Hostess company bankruptcy not the unions. Of course management is trying to shift the blame onto the workers and the unions for the failures of the vulture capitalists who have no experience in baking or food products. As the CEO and upper management drastically cut the wages of the workers, they gave themselves lavish wages as the Titanic went down. The fact is that the responsibility lies with Hostess’s management and the vulture Wall Street private equity firm behind them, and yet the workers are the ones who will suffer the consequences of this shutdown.

How many Businesses will Close their Doors and site Union problems or economy slow down when real Problems are they Just cannot Afford what is Coming with Obamacare and TAX Burderns....

7 out & Joe R right on! Corporate greed, the fat cats want the middle class to work for low wages and no benefits to be sub servant to them. Unions were once the back bone of this country where you could put in a hard days work and be able to go to the doctors and have a little pension when you retired! Regular people are working harder than ever today with little or no benefits. America needs to wake up. The writing has been on the wall for some time now and it's only going to get worse. Big Corporations run this country and a lot of middle class people don't see this.....Stop blaming Obama Care we are the only industralized country where people are dying from no heathcare or going to the emergency room and paying a thousand dollars for an ear infection and guess what. We pay for that thousand dollar bill since people who go to emergency rooms don't have the money to pay. Or what about the people that don't get preventative care and have an advanced disease by the time they go to emergency room.WE Pay! I can go on and on. Let's not be ignorant!