New maker of Twinkies: Non-union workers will be used to restart plants

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Sister Toldjah:

Let the OUTRAGE!!!!!!! begin:

The company that bought the Twinkie, HoHo and Ding Dong brands out of bankruptcy is gearing up to reopen plants and hire workers, but it won’t be using union labor.

Hostess Brands LLC—Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC’s APO -2.11% new incarnation of the baking company that liquidated in Chapter 11—is reopening four bakeries in the next eight to 10 weeks, aiming to get Twinkie-deprived consumers the classic snack cake by mid-July.

Chief Executive C. Dean Metropoulos said the company will pump $60 million in capital investments into the plants between now and September and aims to hire at least 1,500 workers. But they won’t be represented by unions, including the one whose nationwide strike sparked the 86-year-old company’s decision to shut down in November.

“We do not expect to be involved in the union going forward,” Mr. Metropoulos said in an interview Wednesday.

Hostess Brands Inc., the company that filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2012 and eventually sold off its brands and plants to several buyers, was once powered by 19,000 workers, 15,000 of whom were represented by unions. The company’s largest union, the Teamsters, had agreed to a new labor contract following a contentious bankruptcy trial. But the second-largest union, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union, launched a work stoppage after the company imposed new labor terms on the union’s members. Hostess said the strike crippled its operations, forcing it to shut down.

A Teamsters spokeswoman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the bakers union couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.

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[…] Mr. Metropoulos and his son, Daren, the co-CEO of Pabst Brewing Co. who is also heading up the reborn Hostess’s marketing strategy, expressed confidence they would be able to find skilled, nonunion workers near the four plants, which are in areas with high unemployment.

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That is awesome. This is what would have happened to GM had Obama’s crony crapitalism not intervened to save all the union-controlled democrat votes. Just like the only real reason GM is able to stay afloat right now is Obama forcing federal departments to buy all GM cars for federal vehicle fleets.

Now watch how long before we have to listen to union thugs start screaming about how unfair it is that people have jobs without having to pay union dues.

“Gee, ‘nice factory/bakery you got here….. It’d be a shame if something… you know…. HAPPENED to it …..”

Union cockroaches…..

Yeah; the twinkie is back.

Speaking of Government Motors (GM) heard they are moving 15 of their plants to China. Hopefully they will take the Volt with them. They really should move to Siberia and take the union commies with them.

Let’s boycott Government Electric (GE) products.

@AnnS: Let’s boycott Government Electric (GE) products.

Just heard last night that GE is cutting off lending to gun shops.
That doesn’t impact the shops so much as it does the customers who will have to use another lender or SAVE and pay cash for their guns and ammo.
MORE:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324743704578442561634381232.html

How does that not impact gun shops? They use credit to pay for inventory just like any other business.

I wonder if Karma tastes as good as Twinkies

@Nan G:

I just heard about that. Maybe I should say Chinese Government Products. And of course GE owns some of the MSM.

@Stone Soup, #2:

Union cockroaches…..

Now you can rest assured that any cockroach you find in your Twinkie or Ding Dong will be there because of some disgruntled or indifferent employee, reduced to working for substandard wages.

@Greg:

Now you can rest assured that any cockroach you find in your Twinkie or Ding Dong will be there because of some disgruntled or indifferent employee, reduced to working for substandard wages.

And just exactly where did you read that the company intends to pay lower wages than what was earned by the union dupes who manage to put themselves out of a job. If anyone should received “substandard wages” it should be the union manage who convinced those union workers to strike and eventually, lose their jobs.

Use your brain, turdblossom! If they pay more than union scale, then why get rid of the union?

Al Bierbower
because the unions want to run your business and now they run the GOVERNMENT,
HOW DOES IT WORK FOR AMERICA NOW,