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[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 4 points 4 points 8 points (+8|-4) ago
Bullshit. The very reason Hostess was in trouble in the first place was oversized executive pay and golden parachutes. For example, while they were filing for their SECOND BANKRUPTCY, the Board voted to cut Baker Pay by 8% and Benefits by 32% (Remember these wages and benefits are contractual obligations the company must meet as part of negotiations with the baker's union, there is no "We're hurting right now, so we have to ask you to take a pay cut" because it was a concrete business agreement) while at the same time the CEO got a 300% RAISE!
Even the Wall Street Journal, hardly a pro-union publication, notes that creditors of Hostess think what Hostess did was fishy as a Polish fishmongerer's stand:
Then they try to turn around and say that these salary raises were based on performance? By whose definition of the term?!? The company got run into the ground, that's not something you reward Management for, it's something they should have been fired for!
Then it comes out WHY Hostess no longer wanted to fund pensions.:
So they were looking to eliminate their pension-obligation, because they had raided the worker's pension fund to run other parts of the company, when they had given themselves massive increases in pay, even as they ran the company into the ground. The Board of Directors basically gutted Hostess from the inside-out, split the spoils amongst themselves, then placed the blame on the workers.
Don't get me wrong, I despise overreaching Union power and Union Corruption just as much as the next Right-leaning guy...but don't act like this wasn't a problem at the top of the command chain, because what actually happened was well-documented. The internet never forgets. This was clearly a case of management gutting the company, for personal aggrandizement, then trying to deflect blame onto the workers after they had already made off with most of the Lifeblood Capital of the company, in essence blaming the workers for the consequences of Management's mismanagement of the company.
Fuck off with this Pro-Corporate-Raider propaganda...
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[–] Ah_Pook 2 points 4 points 6 points (+6|-2) ago
Good luck with that around here. People have been brainwashed into believing that unions are the devil, even though they'd be on their knees begging for a 100-hour-week work-in-the-dark job otherwise.
[–] TheDude2 2 points 3 points 5 points (+5|-2) ago
Make your own twinkles and pay the workers what you want.
[–] Crashmarik 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
Company was bankrupt twice. It's inspiring that anything at all was able to be saved.
[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago (edited ago)
It wouldn't have needed saving in the first place if Management hadn't raided the worker's contractually-obligated pension funds and given themselves golden parachutes. To quote the relevant parts of the articles...
[–] Kal 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
I enjoy watching you tools rant against your own best interest. It's fucking hilarious.
[–] Lemongarb 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Who needs union insurance when you have Obamacare?
[–] Bestoftherest 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
More Bane Capital type action.