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Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies
RenderSeven writes "In a press release issued today, baker Hostess Brands asked a bankruptcy court for permission to close all of its plants and sell off their assets, immediately laying off 18,500 workers. Citing high labor and rising health care costs, increasing competition and growing consumer awareness of healthy foods, Hostess says it can no longer operate without union concessions. A crippling strike has already shut down operations at all facilities, and while the Teamsters Union has ratified a new contract to keep Hostess in business, the Bakers Union has refused saying they would rather see the company closed than accept pension cuts. The Teamsters union is urging the bakers union to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking; citing its financial experts who had access to the company's books, the Teamsters say that Hostess' warning of liquidation is 'not an empty threat or a negotiating tactic' but a certain outcome if workers keep striking. If your late-night programming is fueled by Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Zingers, better stock up now."
[Editor's note: A whole bunch of users submitted this news. I worry about our readership's cholesterol levels.]
If corporations are people, Mitt Romney is a serial killer than murders them and feasts upon their corpses. He would be worse for business than Obama. Particularly in the long run when his tax and spending cuts gut the long term stability of the nation and we fall back into being a backwoods yokel country that nobody gives a damn about like we were before WWI.
I'm an American, and I ate about 12 Twinkies in my entire lifetime, all before the age of 16. Think I'll drop over dead at any moment? Hilarious that Euros with their disgusting teeth and b.o. problems are always on /. talking about how "unhealthy" those "horrible" Americans are -- OH NO!!!