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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Union kills the twinkie


Stuart Wheaton wrote:

On 11/20/2012 11:52 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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? "Edward A. Falk" wrote:
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?? In article ?, azotic ? wrote:
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?? Hostess management has been running the company into the ground for a
?? decade.
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?? In 2005 the union made major concessions to the company, to the tune
?? of $150M/year.
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?? They cut bakers pay by 8% and benefits by 32%
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?? The CEO raised his own pay by 300%. Nine executives
?? received 60-100% raises while filing for their second
?? bankruptcy.
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?? In 2011, they raided the employee pension fund and now owe it $160M
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?? So now they blame the $20/hour employees for *their* failure.
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? Ler's see. They have ONE CEO, and 18,500 other employees. How much
? good would it have done to cut the CEO's salary by 8%?
?

Cutting his salary by 8% instead of raising it by 300% would have
yielded enough money to pay each of the 18,500 workers an additional
$100. That is just the CEO, if the rest of the executives had taken a
similar haircut, they might have been able to save the company, but
since their goal was to loot it, it is really a moot point.



So, on average that $100 would be about 3.33 hours overtime.