Hostess Mediation Fails, Union members turn on Union Leadership

[Avery]

[S]ome Hostess workers in another union awaiting the
mediation results criticized Mr. Hurt, the 20-year president of the
bakers union, who defended his decisions and actions during the
company's bankruptcy process.

Scott Quenneville, a Hostess truck driver represented by the Teamsters, said he feels his colleagues were misled by Mr. Hurt into believing that a buyer would swoop in for the company. Mr. Hurt on Sunday said he thought there was a good chance a buyer would emerge who would give union members their jobs back.

"Frank misled a lot of people. He was not going to settle for anything less than closing the company down, because they didn't want that 8% pay cut," said Mr. Quenneville. "If you don't want the job, leave the job. Why ruin 18,000 jobs?"

"I didn't mislead anybody on anything," Mr. Hurt said. He said he didn't tell workers preparing to strike that a buyer for Hostess was definitely waiting in the wings.

Mr. Hurt said, "I don't want anybody to think that anybody is guaranteeing anyone anything, but we did know that there were people taking a look at this company."

Hostess Brands Inc. said Tuesday night it would proceed with liquidation plans after mediation fails.
Earlier Tuesday, the head of the bakers union whose strike precipitated Hostess liquidation plans didn't attend a last-ditch mediation session and wasn't hopeful about its prospects, he said.
"I'm not too optimistic about this mediation," Frank Hurt, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, said when reached earlier Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio. He said he couldn't get to New York, where the session was taking place; instead, he said, the union's secretary-treasurer was attending

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[SiriusDawg]

Damn Unions for not accepting complete and utter slash in wages due to the executive raises and previous bankruptcy filings due to incompetent management.

How dare they want semi-reasonable pay!

[shitcunt]

Isn't Hostess run by Democrats?

[I invented that]

Damn Unions for not accepting complete and utter slash in wages due to the executive raises and previous bankruptcy filings due to incompetent management.

How dare they want semi-reasonable pay!

now they get no pay. excellent bargaining.

[Avery]

Damn Unions for not accepting complete and utter slash in wages due to the executive raises and previous bankruptcy filings due to incompetent management.

How dare they want semi-reasonable pay!

They dared and now they got the reasonable pay of 0.0. Congrats on the victory.

Isn't Hostess run by Democrats?

One of their primary lenders was a prominent democrap, yes. Interested if Urkel and his merry band of hypocrites will make a mockery of property law again and make their lenders suffer, being they're prominent democraps.

[Avery]

Doug Mansky, a Hostess driver in Detroit and a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was in the process of moving to a cheaper condominium on Tuesday, after his union had agreed to an 8% pay cut that he said would shave $200 a week from his income. After Judge Drain cleared Hostess to impose the same new labor terms on the bakers union, they went on strike.

"I hope things work out. I'm going to be 49 and trying to find a job in a market that's terrible," Mr. Mansky said

So let's do the math on what his salary was if a 8% cut would take $200 away from his weekly salary. .08*X=200 X=$2500/week. Oooooohhh So oppressed!

I guess $0 a week for driving a truck is better than $2300 . <----libtard lojik.

[SiriusDawg]

Oh well, not my job. Good for the Unions. Glad to see the bankruptcy Judge laughed at the executive bonuses the company wanted to give out with their "dire financial situation"

[I invented that]

Oh well, not my job. Good for the Unions. Glad to see the bankruptcy Judge laughed at the executive bonuses the company wanted to give out with their "dire financial situation"

[SiriusDawg]

Ok, I did laugh....and I will rep you for doing that