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Topic: ‘Too Little, Too Late’ |
‘Too Little, Too Late’
Washington Free Beacon, by Bill McMorris
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/7/2012 12:54:57 PM
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| The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday blasted defunct Twinkie manufacturer Hostess Brands, Inc., for “unreasonably delaying providing the [Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International] Union with other requested information” and ordered the company to post signs admitting its bad-faith bargaining in its Biddeford, Maine offices. It is unclear who will seen the signs. “It doesn’t sound like it hurts Hostess because no one works in that factory anymore,” said Jim Anderson, the financial secretary for the BCTGM Local 334, the union that brought the suit. “It’s too little, too late
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Comments: How shocking. The radicals in the NLRB blast the company. I´m sure those 18,000 people who are now unemployed thanks to the union Marxists are pleased with their oh so hollow victory. s/o Oh, that´s right. They can sit on their hind ends while our tax dollars pay for them.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
quark, 12/7/2012 12:59:41 PM (No. 9053817)
Does the NLRB have any other reason for being other then to protect Unions??
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
QRP, 12/7/2012 1:00:07 PM (No. 9053818)
Probably not going to mean much. There are no laborers to whom Hostess now relates.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 12/7/2012 1:06:54 PM (No. 9053841)
I would post the signs and publish photos of them on the web especially for the Labor Union idiots to observe. It would be a gigantic "So What?" and middle finger insult to the Øbama moron Mafia thugs who now rule the NLRB.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
civilservant, 12/7/2012 1:07:54 PM (No. 9053844)
This is so very very typical of a goobermint bureaucracy.........weeks after the plant closes, they demand the signs be posted.
Months after 9/11, Atta had his application for a visa approved.
But they´ll do Healthcare SO MUCH better......
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jackburton, 12/7/2012 1:22:09 PM (No. 9053879)
Excuse me but the Teamsters (hint: also a union) got all the financial disclosure they needed. I dunno how they did it: Asked for it? Read it when it was offered to them? Anyhow, they got all the disclosed information.
Beats me how the bakers could say it wasn´t available.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dvc, 12/7/2012 1:28:09 PM (No. 9053887)
NLRB is a destructive force helping the parasitic unions - but generally incompetent fools, too. Parasites (unions) doing what they do, weakening and eventually killing the host. well, actually Hostess in this case. [grin]
The poor fool being interviewed apparently thinks his loss of job was just bad luck like getting struck by lightning. These idiots cannot make the connection between their financially untenable demands and the company failing. Amazing and sad.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lydwho, 12/7/2012 1:34:53 PM (No. 9053901)
The NLRB is made up of union punks nominated and installed Illegally by Obama and are about to be booted off by a federal judge---watch!!!
Art
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 12/7/2012 1:52:59 PM (No. 9053934)
This has got to be from the Onion. The NLRB demands a sign be put up that Hostess wasn´t negotiating in good faith when the Union has put them out of business for not negotiating! And if true you know the Hostess guy that said they will post the sign is laughing his behind off. This story is dripping in more irony than an O Henry tale. This has got to be the funniest and most ridiculous thing a goobernment agency has ever done!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Evocatus, 12/7/2012 2:38:12 PM (No. 9054007)
If I remember correctly, the NLRB is the same communist bunch that had at least two members illegally "recess appointed" by the Obammunist when the Senate was still in session. It´s going to the U.S. Supreme Court to void their appointments and void every act they made while they were illegally serving on the NLRB board.
Additionally, the NLRB was below quorum while the two members were no on it, so they should have been shut down completely until they were up to strength. Just another illegal and sad stupidity foisted on us by the renegade Obama Administration.
I guess law is just for the little people. Until the little people rise up and re-capture the government and the law for their own.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hotrod, 12/7/2012 3:11:00 PM (No. 9054068)
The NLRB has never been anything more than an extension of union leadership. It´s time has come and gone.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 12/7/2012 5:54:15 PM (No. 9054318)
So I guess that its the Bakers Union who screwed up by not listening when the Teamsters told them not to strike, and now they are trying to get out of the soup pot by blaming all their troubles on Hostess. Do I have that correct?
#7 is correct and is that judge mad. The auto industry unions and the WH made a secret deal and didn´t tell the judge about it. Reversal of his decision could put the industry in a far worse senario than before. All hail Obama!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
distorted, 12/8/2012 2:03:09 AM (No. 9054722)
The Lefty equity fund which owned Hostess bought the corp out of bankruptcy with the express view that they could help the workers, and precisely because they were Lefty nitwits, the unions would be cooperative with them. Well, much schadenfreude later, they are Kaputenfreude.
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