Reality adjustment. I expect a lot more of that the next 4 years.

Time for an Executive Order from the White House via the Labor Department?

Boy, their unions really helped out these 600 plus employees didn´t they? And just before Christmas too.

Union workers striking themselves out of a job. Maybe they should check with Eastern Airlines before they strike.

"A representative for the union could not be reached immediately for comment Monday."
Will these idiots ever learn?
Enjoy the time off!

This is just the beginning. The 0bama War on Business is just beginning.

Part of the severance package should include the name, address, home phone number and cell phone numbers of each union official so they can send their personal thank you.

Most bakeries work under the Department of Agriculture, it´s a very hard job and dangerous as well.

The OSHA regs are already so complex and expensive you are now paying 2.50 a loaf for white bread that should cost .50, add in the unions and wah la the dough boy is out of work.

Bring these factories on down to the South where its right to work; Seattle, St. Louis, and Cincinnati are solid Obama territory so they don´t really need jobs anyway.

Blue cities. No other places deserve it more.

These are the geniuses who look at Michael Moore and see a visionary.

Are the libs going to boycott Twinkies in protest?

Look for the Union label!

It will be standing in the unemployment line with the guy wearing it.

Just another example of the unions killing the golden goose. Good for Hostess standing for their principles...and their investors. Bad for the non-union folks on that payroll. Hopefully many will be willing/able to relocate and be worked into one of the surviving bakeries. Unions should--instead of spending millions of dollars on Democrat pols--- simply start their own companies, then run themselves out of business. If I was hiring for a company: Me: "Have you ever been a member of a union?" Applicant: "Yes." Me: "Next."

"Well that´ll learn em dern em".

I am going to have to buy some Ding Dongs this week. Way to go, Hostess! Even my stupid progressive best friend admitted to me yesterday that she hates how the union bosses of her husband ´only care about themselves´. Well duh, stupid! She still votes Dem in the end. You cannot fix stupid!

fta: “We deeply regret this decision, but we have repeatedly explained that we will close facilities that are no longer able to produce and deliver products because of a work stoppage — and that we will close the entire company if widespread strikes cripple our business,” Hostess Brands CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said.
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What? You mean a privately held company has the right to close up shop and pink slip thousands of troublemaker union members? Wow.. who knew? /s

Thankfully I´m on a diet, so I won´t miss my Twinkies. However, I strongly suggest that Hostess announce a new plant to be opened in South Carolina.

Obamanomics in action!

Who is John Gault?

So they will shut the entire company rather than be slowly strangled by unions.

I need to go buy a pack of Hostess mini-chocolate doughnuts

#6: Perhaps. But, as a CEO and business owner myself, may I suggest that this is just the beginning. The businessman is just beginning to fight back against 0bama-nomics.

Of course they will, #11. They´re Ding Dongs.

I´ll certainly miss my deep fried Twinkies. The State Fair will never be the same! Their Snowballs were nothing to sneeze at either.

First of many companies who will be turning off the lights...either in certain departments or the entire company. This worked out so well for the union, did it not? Lug nuts. Dumb lug nuts. Have fun dumpster diving you libs

Many companies put their plans on hold a couple of years ago when it became unclear what return they could expect on any further investment. Last Tuesday evening the plans for investment in the United States died.
Companies are in no mode to take any stuff from anyone, especially union employees. The capitol they do have to invest will probably do better outside the US and it is now a question of do they shut down US facilities and sell or move the machinery to a new plant or just walk away. At least shutting down the US operation will stop the bleeding.

I might have been upset about this at one time but the cakes I´ve had from them lately taste pretty awful.

Oh the humanity.

Well, I guess the union showed them.

Keep that in mind while standing in the unemployment line.

Hostess will probably sell out to the big Mexican company, Bimbo Bakeries, which owns most of the bread and cake brands that are familiar to everyone.

Sometimes you just can´t fix stupid.

Great! 627 more Federal Nipple-Sucking, Obama voting, thumb-sitting, self-absorbed, media-influenced, celebrity-obsessed, busted-ass, Kool-Aid drinking, uninformed, dumbed-down defecRats.
Let´s see now...by my preeecise calculations that should yield about 1695 mo votes for democRat causes!
Lovely....

Eat your union card. Hope you choke on it. Family getting hungry? Let them eat hohos.

Brings to mind an old gentleman I knew forty-years ago who owned a lumber distribution center. His employees tried to unionize, so he closed the doors, sold off the inventory/property and moved to Florida. (He liked to fish.)

Better dead and families left unfed than not union led!!!

Same here #31. I knew the owner of a carpeting business 40+ years ago (sold, delivered and installed commercial carpeting for businesses)who had a dozen employees. They tried to form/join a union. No problem. He closed the doors, terminated his lease and went to work as a one-man regional distributor company for a carpet manufacturer. I asked what happened to the employees. He didn´t know and didn´t seem to care (any more than they cared about him, that is).

Someone once said that because they contain so many preservatives, that the shelf life of Twinkies is 450 years ...

Not one union leader lost his job. Just the peons.

Had my first deep fried Twinkie a few months ago. It was the grossest, yummiest most fantastic glob of goo I have ever eaten!

Many years ago a paper mill on Lincoln NH went on strike. The river into which they dumped their effluent was upgraded while they were on strike. The net effect was that they needed to treat their discharges, and they could not afford to do so. Plant closed, cleaner river, and union dues gone. What´s wrong with this picture?

This is what should happen when teachers go on strike, too.

This is why unions increasingly like gooberment unionization much more than private enterprise unionization... Gooberment has less ability and propensity to abrogate their contracts by going out of business or seeking bankruptcy relief.

I love a happy ending!!

I agree with poster #1 and #38.

One day a few weeks ago I got up and turned on Fox News and Mitt Romney was standing in front of a big yellow truck. I thought, I´ve seen that truck before. It was Marvin Wood and they have a plant in my small town that they struggle to keep open in these hard times. They are a family friendly company and have a "no lay-off" policy. They have had to cut hours to cut costs, but they keep up the employees´ health benefits. If they were union, I´m sure they would have closed the plant years ago.

If you watch "How its made" (awesome show, btw) you will notice that there´s an amazing amount of automation in today´s factories. The solution to these labor issues is to invest in automation. Sure there´s maintenance of the equipment, but that´s small numbers by comparison and can usually be contracted out.

What??? You mean Obama isn´t going to bail them out? Oh wait, moochelle wouldn´t let him would she? She being the head of the food police and all.

My dad worked for an oil company and years ago one of their refineries´ employees threatened to unionize. It was a family owned company and the patriarch warned them that if they did he would sell. They did, and he did.

Gotta love those unions. Perhaps their man in the white house can find ´em all a job. #9, you nailed it!

Twinkies to my liberal friends for Christmas. Or some other Hostess products.

"SNOWBALLS,SNOWBALLS!"

Excellent observation #9

No problem . . . I would guess an ex-union twinkie baker is in big demand !

Maybe they could replace the workers with immigrant Obama voters?

Does this free them from their Obama-care waiver?

? Look for the union label. ? This was the only way Obama could get 627 more people on food stamps.