The Twinkie is Dead! Long Live the Twinkie!Did the baker's union get what they wanted all along?
Apparently, Hostess is
close to selling off its venerable Twinkie brand to one of two investment firms. You may remember that
Hostess filed for bankruptcy last fall, after it was unable to come to terms with the baker's union. Twinkies madness
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In no way does any of this make sense from an efficiency standpoint. I get idea you don't want things tacked on to contract that weren't originally there, but this is just batshit. The delivery guy should be able to, y'know, deliver goods.
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Every train had to have an eight-man crew (if I recall correctly), including a coal man and a brake man, in spite of the fact that the engines all ran on diesel instead of coal, and the brakes were all automatic air brakes, not manually operated.
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They may or may not be as crooked as a corkscrew now, but for decades, they were, plus being very nearly a wholly owned subsidiary of the mob.
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Reminds me of my days as an orchestra musician in Illinois. We were union, and paid, but not paid much. The conductor laid out the organization's expenses for us, and it turned out that the cost for one night's work by the stagehand's union was higher than the amount paid to the entire orchestra for 5 nights of work.
This has affected the arts everywhere: a city creates a nice performing venue for their orchestra/ballet/opera, but the stagehands' union is in charge of running the performances. Soon, the very organizations for which that venue was built cannot afford to play there!
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