Bluemage Wrote:And now the White House has started a petition on their own website to get Hostess nationalized. Judging by the way they handled the auto industry, that'll put the unions in control of the company... the same unions whose contracts were as bad for the company as its corrupt leadership.While I'm sure that the unions were a part of the problem, the management was worse for the simple fact that they basically laid out for the union, "either you help us kill the company, or you roll the hell over and let us do what we want." A 30% paycut is a hell of a lot of money to ask anyone to give up, to say nothing of the benefits loss.
Really, I'd love to see Hostess get bought up by honest private interests, turned into an open shop, and made profitable again from both ends.
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