Bluemage Wrote:I only care in terms of that I need to watch to see if it's one of those in the management, or from one of the private funds holding the company, going in to buy what's left and reopen it as a union-free shop. Seriously, if the union is THAT BAD, don't beat around the bush, ask the bankruptcy court for permission to kill their contract completely and go union-free that way.JFerio Wrote: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.Eh. Why do we care which is *worse*, anyway? They both did bad things to the source of my Twinkies, and for that, they both deserve to be punished.
It's people like that who give good institutions bad names.
As for the rest, it's a foodstuff, and a non-vital treat one. I've done without most of their product line for some years now, going without for the rest of my lifespan won't cause me any real damage outside of increased cynicism.
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