"The union preferred to picket while an 85-year-old company suffocated . . . rather than risk having to face inevitable demands for similar concessions at other employers across the country." I believe this is exactly what the stupid refusal of concessions is about and it seems the bakers union was willing to sacrifice 5,000 Hostess workers to try and maintain their union-tough image. I wonder if any of those workers understand what just happened to them?

My condolences to OP on your husband´s job loss - my brother is also now jobless. It is a great article that should be read if you want to understand what happened to Hostess.

The Bakers Union was in the plants. The Teamsters Union drove the trucks. And, the Teamsters actually accepted the cuts and crossed the Bakers picket line.

It´s pretty bad when the Teamsters are the rational union in the negotiations!

There´s one ´Devil Dog´ remaining, and he´s in the White House. The ´Ding Dong´ serves as VP.

FTA: ´´...Twinkies, Devil Dogs and Ding Dongs and other artery-clogging, icing-adorned icons...´´

Hey Dennis: How many and how often must one eat one of these things before arteries clog up? One a week? One a month? 10 a day? I bet you don´t know. Congratulations on riding the bandwagon with other food police. I bet you feel really smart!

This is going to happen again and again as Obamanomics ripples across the nation. I think that this is actually the death knell of union power. Reality can´t be avoided forever. Union workers are going to lose more and more jobs as the union leadership becomes more and more irrational. Elections do have consequences.

Hostess, please, declare Chapter 11, invalidate ALL union contracts, re-incorporate in the Cayman Islands, then emerge from BK with transferred operations in non-union southern States and a limited market of Red States only.

I´m with that idea, poster 6!

Would the union workers have been so suicidal if they had not suffered a delusional bravery due to Obama´s monumental welfare system?

The constitutional republic known as the U.S.A is dead; most just don´t realize it yet.

#6 has the right idea...when the Teamsters are the intelligent union it is bad.

#6, they ARE in Ch. 11. That was the predicative factor in the Company´s re-negotiation with the Teamsters et al.
It was the rejection of the Plan in Ch. 11 by the Bakers union that will dictate that the company go Ch. 7.

I´ve said this before and will again - Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread aren´t dead. There´s money to be made selling junk food. Hostess products generated over $2 billion in revenue every year. It was the union work rules that killed Hostess. Non-union companies will buy the pieces of Hostess and will be producing their most popular products in a matter of months. They´ll make a profit because they´ll make sure they keep the unions out.

Unfortunately, most of the Hostess employees will not be hired back because they wear the union stink. Let´s hope OP´s husband is one of the lucky ones.

This is what we see in countries like Spain and Italy and Britain. The democrats want this as they can extort money from everyone.

I read that Hostess had 6 business plans that failed to profit in the last 10 years but the upper management paid itself outrageous salaries. if this true, its not the Unions fault. (and I HATE unions!)

Unless republicans find one politician hip enough and brave enough and with enough scriptural awareness to explain clearly that Obama and the Left are just about done overthrowing the country, and the middle east, we are finished. BTW, there is no "republican" like that.

I still think that the PINO intends to unionize 71 million Obamacare workers. Nightmare city!

An amazing article. The bottom line fta:
"Even a parasite is smart enough to know not to kill its host. In the case of unions, the presence of such preternatural intelligence isn’t yet readily apparent."

#13, loved you in Everybody loves Raymond.

Sadly, your statement must have come from a liberal. See, Hostess has been in Bankruptcy twice in the last 10 years and any executive compensation must be approved by the Court.
The current management? ONE dollar a year.
Unions SUCK.