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Hostess shutdown puts 600
out of work in northern Utah
Deseret News [Salt Lake City, Utah], by Wendy Leonard
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Posted By:skughesme, 11/17/2012 12:02:25 PM
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| OGDEN — A truck driver with 45,000 pounds of sugar was turned away from the Hostess plant on Lincoln Avenue Friday after the company´s top officials indefinitely halted operations at the facility and others nationwide. "I sat around for an hour and a half … and then got a call to take the sugar someplace else," said Rocky Ridge, a driver for Idaho-based Handy Truck Line. Employees at the factory — which has turned out truckloads of donuts, breads, cupcakes and other baked goods for several decades
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bassman, 11/17/2012 12:08:00 PM (No. 9020648)
Reading this article about the sugar truck made me immediatley think that this is a scheme by Michelle Obama to control what we eat. Can´t think of a more iconic junk food to take away from us than Twinkies. Far fetched I know, by nowadays anything is possible.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Velox, 11/17/2012 12:32:35 PM (No. 9020687)
The total number of people losing their jobs will be much larger than 18000 as people like the sugar company employee lose jobs also.
I love when the liberals blame the company for going out of business.
Who would simply shut down a a profitable company to get back at employees?
The libs want a company to keep losing and losing until every investor and supplier has lost everything.
Read Atlas Shrugged.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GOP_U_BET, 11/17/2012 12:40:43 PM (No. 9020704)
Last night on the news in Tulsa, they were interviewing some of the 60 people losing jobs as Hostess employees. Universally, those interviewed were ignorant of basic economics and were insisting that the company could have met the union´s demands. They were also, to put it delicately, typical Obama voters with regards to their personal demographics.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dante, 11/17/2012 12:52:14 PM (No. 9020718)
Too bad, lefties, Hostess isn´t the government. They can´t simply confiscate cash from their fellow citizens or make payroll indefinitely with borrowed money.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ZurichMike, 11/17/2012 12:53:38 PM (No. 9020721)
The dumbing down of America includes unions, who understand only one thing: gimme, gimme, gimme.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/17/2012 1:03:28 PM (No. 9020737)
Remembering a post from yesterday that announced the petition to the White House to nationalize Hostess.
Imagine Twinkies being run in an Amtrak sort of way. Few billion here, few billion there... eventually, your stores might actually see delivery of the Twinkies.
/s off/
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
buckhorn_cortez, 11/17/2012 1:46:21 PM (No. 9020789)
The real story is how the demands of 5,000 union employees put 13,500 other employees out of work. I don´t expect it to be covered from that perspective - but that´s what happened.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
L.A. Guy, 11/17/2012 2:00:30 PM (No. 9020817)
Hostess should sell to a Company who´ll relocate to a right to work state before Obama, Socialist thug Trumpka and Holder can do anything about it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 11/17/2012 2:12:33 PM (No. 9020836)
I hope they all call their union reps to thank them for their caring and concern over the firings....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
maggie2u, 11/17/2012 2:24:39 PM (No. 9020853)
A bit off topic but to show how ´dumbed´ down Americans are, last year, when gas prices started going up, a local TV station in Seattle was interviewing people on the street. One young thing, a college student at the U. of Washington told the reporter it didn´t concern her because she didn´t own a car. At times, you just feel like beating your head against a brick wall.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nina584, 11/17/2012 7:13:32 PM (No. 9021171)
Could not happen to nicer people/ Obamaphone anyone?
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