On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:16:25 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

Destroyed by bad management and the inability to develop new products
that the market wants. Unions had nothing to do with the downfall of
Hostess.


Other than the refusal to go back to work, so they could fill their
contracted customers.

Between the stockholders wanting extreme profits and the union pricing
the obsolete products out of sight, the market dwindled. The union
strike was the last straw. Like I said, I hope the states deny any of
them unemployment benefits because they walked off the job. They quit.
**** 'EM! Let the union pay them until they find burgerflip jobs.

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I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as
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