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I will remind people here the following: Indiana is a right-to-work state. This was passed last year. Right to work lowers employer burden why someone is laid
by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I will remind people here the following: Indiana is a right-to-work state. This was passed last year.
Right to work lowers employer burden why someone is laid off/fired. Along with that, makes it a felony to require union dues to work at a company. However, the union is still required to represent you upon its charter.
Hostess also lost a sizable chunk of money with the lawsuit concerning Sachs donuts. Because of things I do not understand, Hostess had to kill all lines of yeast donuts and all "packaged fresh" yeast donuts. And from talking to employees of Hostess in Columbus,IN, those machines were scrapped.
A good reason why the union was giving hell was Hostess wanted to cut wages by almost 20%: the union already agreed to a 10% cut and reduction of benefits. Hostess wanted 9% more, and threw a tantrum here locally.
Who was in the right? I have no idea. But it looks the the nuclear option was used: blow it to the ground.
- ck2 14y agoApparently they also turned down selling to another bakery. Not sure what was up with that, but there was definitely profit to be had if they didn't want to sell. Strange that moving $2.5 Billion of product a year isn't profitable. Doesn't sound right.