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"Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@usurper.org> wrote:
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> http://abcnews.go.com/Business/twinkies-return-hostess-
> unions/story?id=19043854#.UXta0qK-q1U
>
> The bankrupt assets of Hostess Brands, Inc., the company responsible for
> Twinkies, Ho Ho's, Sno Balls and Ding Dongs, are being put back to work by
> a buyout firm. What's not being put back to work are the former Hostess
> unionized employees.
>
> The unionized workers had been on strike when the company folded late last
> year.
>
> The company had imposed a contract that would cut its 19,000 workers'
> wages � 15,000 of whom belonged to the workers from the Bakery,
> Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM)
> � by 8 percent. (The Teamsters was Hostess' largest union, followed by
> BCTGM.) The contract would have also cut benefits by 27 to 32 percent.
>
> Hostess filed for Chapter 11 in January 2012. In November 2012, the
> company announced it would be shutting its doors for good. By that time,
> it had lost about $1.1 billion, largely due to bankruptcy filings.
>
> But last month Apollo Global Management, LLC, and Metropoulos & Co., which
> owns Pabst Blue Ribbon and Vlasic pickles, bought the 83-year-old company
> for $410 million, renaming it Hostess Brands LLC. It is planning to re-
> open four bakeries over the next two and a half months, in Columbus, Ga.;
> Emporia, Kan.; Schiller Park, Ill.; and Indianapolis. It is also
> contemplating a fifth in Los Angeles.
>
> According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, C. Dean Metropoulos, the
> company's chief executive, said that between now and September, he plans
> to inject $60 million in capital investments into the plants, and hopes to
> hire at least 1,500 workers.
>
> But those workers won't be unionized.
>
> "It appears that they are discharging the union contract in bankruptcy,"
> said Matthew A. Kaufman, a labor attorney in Los Angeles who is not
> affiliated with the case.
>
> While Metropoulos did not respond to interview requests from ABC News, he
> told the Journal that he does "not expect to be involved in the union
> going forward."
>
> A spokesman for the Teamsters declined to comment. But in a November 2012
> statement the Teamsters noted that the "BCTGM's leaders are putting
> Teamster members in a horrible position � asking them to support a strike
> that will put them out of a job when they haven't even asked all their
> members to go on strike."
>
> A spokeswoman for the BCTGM did not return phone calls to ABC News. In a
> March statement, BTCGM president David Durkee said, "We share the
> enthusiasm, energy and passions exhibited by new ownership, and believe
> our highly-motivated and skilled workforce will serve as indispensable
> partners in the seamless re-opening of factories," he said.
>
> But, according to the Journal, Metropoulos and his son, Daren, felt
> confident that they would be able to hire non-union employees near the new
> plants.
>
> "We're trying to find the most qualified people in these local markets to
> come work for the company," Daren Metropoulos told the Journal.

Obviously the union candidates weren't qualified.  LOL!

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