Twinkies Are Forever.
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Before you get TOO angry at those money-grubbing Union Thugs that killed Twinkies... earlier this year, the CEO of Hostess was awarded a 300% raise (from approximately $750,000 to $2,550,000) and at least nine other top executives of the company received massive pay raises.
One such executive received a pay increase from $500,000 to $900,000 and another received one taking his salary from $375,000 to $656,256.
Which pretty much underscores every one of the Occupy Wall Street talking points. The CEOs reward themselves with Golden Parachutes just before liquidating the companies.
Besides, this is just a ploy to liquidate the company, sell it and start again.
And in the mean time... Hostess is still in operation in Canada so the HoHos will just become the new contraband.
One such executive received a pay increase from $500,000 to $900,000 and another received one taking his salary from $375,000 to $656,256.
Which pretty much underscores every one of the Occupy Wall Street talking points. The CEOs reward themselves with Golden Parachutes just before liquidating the companies.
Besides, this is just a ploy to liquidate the company, sell it and start again.
And in the mean time... Hostess is still in operation in Canada so the HoHos will just become the new contraband.
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We're just dying to shove this stuff down our gullets, eh?
Yeah, because Unions give themselves raises to 2.5 million dollars per year as a reward for running companies into the ground.
Happens all the time.
Like here.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
No unions just protect lazy workers and employees who are easily replaceable. They also feel that all workers should be guaranteed a raise in spite of worker production our company success. And as far as increasing a salary to 2.5 million...I'm sure the union execs would do it for themselves if they actually had the power to do it. And if you believe it was the management's fault for the Hostess issue I suggest you look at your own tasteless link and substitute my picture for yours.
ANd perhaps you have fallen to the propaganda of unions? :?
Twinkies aren't going anywhere in the long run. Hostess may be gone, but there will be plenty of private equity's lining up to buy their assets.
I disagree. How is this any different than unions demanding raises for workers when the obvious business model is no longer working? If it going to go under, take what you can. Hope the 18,500 Hostess workers who put their faith in the union can find suitable employment.
Give me a break. A CEO who is set for life regardless needs to take what he can from the employees who have no real say in how things are going? How about better severance packages? How about thinking a little bit about the people working for you?
Just such a terrible attitude. Like I always say, your greed is good philosophy is exactly what is wrong with this country.
Who's to say what is "set for life". Everyone works to better there own situation whatever that situation is. That's capitalism. Why should a company worry about severance packages for workers who are striking? Why should a company worry about severance packages at all? If the business stops being productive and profitable that's the way it goes. If the guy who pumps the crèam into the Twinkies wants the same privelages as the guy who sits behind the big oak desks perhaps he should go back to school and work to get into that position?
But why should a CEO who runs a failing business get a raise? Go back to school and become CEO, HA. You sell Hondas right? Why aren't you the CEO if it's as easy as going back to school?
And yes, a person who has the title "CEO - Hostess" is set for life, regardless if they have to find another job.
One thing I will say is that there are a few bad apple unions out there, but they are very much the exception, not the rule.
^THIS^
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
I don't sell Hondas even though that's a very good gig but I'm wondering what your definition of "set for life" is?
...and I'm wondering why a management team who is trying to bring their product to market by spending the least on labor costs is a bad thing? Why is it bad to reward the hard worker and replace the inadequate one? Why is it bad to not want unions when quite simply someone not paying union dues to another form of bureaucracy and management team could be viewed as a raise?
Respect from whom?
a) the filling is inserted by a machine.
b) wow, what a totally obnoxious thing to say. And clueless. And plutocratic.
Sorry. That's just reality. I don't have unicorns and butterflies flying out of my ass that can make it all better, and there's actually nothing wrong with the way business works. The workers at Hostess that lost their jobs are more than free in this country to start their own pastry company using their own capital, even a loan, and start their own business. Then they can sit behind the big oak desk.
Yes.
please... just like that... keep saying stuff like that. Show us the classist, plutocratic and obnoxious bullshit of the Romneys of the world... keep doing that for the next few years... remind the masses why they voted in overwhelming numbers against that bullshit.
And your comment about keeping the good workers and replacing inadequate ones just again shows that you have been suckered by those whose interest it is for the public to think that way. It is pure bullshit that that is how it works in unions. Again, the bad apple unions where that is the case are few, but always the ones they hold up as examples of how it works. That simply is NOT the case. What MOST unions primarily do is protect workers from abuse of power, and ensure that they earn living wages and benefits for their hard, dedicated, and largely skilled labour. Most do NOT function to keep those who are inadequate or prevent those who are deserving from excelling. That is a union busting myth. Those who think that unions are no longer relevant are kidding themselves. Employers are as willing to mistreat and undervalue workers for their own massive profits today as they ever were. I see non reason at all not to fight for a system where business is mutually beneficial to all involved - the owners AND the workers. The owners have the money and the ownership on their side; the workers have the union on theirs. It's fair, and I like fairness.
I know your attitude is "if you work hard enough you can sit behind the big desk too; until you do, fuck you." And the men behind the desks rule the world ... That thinking completely undervalues the role of workers. To the point that it makes me a bit sick to my stomach knowing that people are vicious enough to have this attitude. Plus, if everyone worked to sit behind a big desk (as though that is SO much more valuable than all.other work in the world, and ever so rewarding to giant egos), who in the fuck would do all the real work that actually keeps the world functioning on a day to day basis? ... The people who keep the world functioning on a day to day basis deserve fair treatment and reasonable wages and benefits, and say, they need unions to fight for that since corporations are too greedy and unappreciative to give it of their own free will most of the time.
Workers are treated fairly and with fair wages. If their current situation doesn't they are free to seek employment elsewhere. They are also free to start their own business using their own capital.
Overwhelming numbers? OK.
And yes thank you for your permission, I will continue thinking like this. I would have to think you offering Donald Trump 5 million dollars to shove a dildo up his ass may have been slightly more obnoxious, classist, and plutocratic but that's just me I guess.
Yes, it's just you.
the rest of us know what "classist" and "plutocratic" mean.
And if YOU don't like how the majority of the American people voted and support the right of busines owners to pay their employees slave wages, treat them unfairly and expect them to work in unsafe conditions, you are free to move to North Korea where I'm sure you'll be much happier.