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Labor Unions Kill the Twinkie and 18,000 Jobs

C.H. Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 1:24 PM
HJ: I kept wondering why they are putting restrictions on school lunches but not food stamps. Now I know...they're planning on making fast food and junk food producers extinct. Duh me. They'll take all those ex-union workers and get them working in the government setting up Obamacare.

Labor Unions have officially killed off the Twinkie. The company that makes the yummy treat announced today they will start to downsize operations (a.k.a. fire people) as a result of a long battle with union workers.

Hostess Brands Inc., the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said it had sought court permission to go out of business after failing to get wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its striking bakery workers.

Hostess said a national strike by members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union that began last...

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