Hostess fails in bid to throw out contracts - 05/16/2012

[Sherman A1]

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain has denied Hostess Brand’s motion to reject all Teamsters labor contracts at the company. The Teamsters have said all along that they want to help save Hostess, but would vigorously oppose the company throwing out the contracts and imposing working conditions on Teamster workers. Teamsters Secretary Treasurer Ken Hall says it’s a rare day when a bankruptcy judge denies a company request to destroy union contracts. Hall attributes that to the resolve of Teamster members. The Teamsters say they remain committed to finding solutions to labor agreements that will help Hostess survive bankruptcy.

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1704442

[MrScorpio]

1. Why is Hostess, of all companies, doing so bad? nt

[gadjitfreek]

2. Really! At $1.59 per item nowadays,

Who would actually drop that kind of cash to be slowly poisoned by fats and sugars? The prices of their products (and those of the candy bar companies) have gone WAY out of line over the last ten years. I won't buy snack cakes or candy bars any more...partially because they are slowly killing us as a nation and partially because they are just so ridiculously expensive. It's actually cheaper to get a piece of fruit now...and that's a good thing.

[Sherman A1]

4. One might think it would be

a continuous stream of bad management. This company has been in and out of bankruptcy over the last decade, most of which I believe were designed to break union contracts.

[MrScorpio]

6. Yep, bad management would do it

I suppose that explains why the quality has gone down over the years

[EC]

7. They changed their recipes years back

using cheaper ingrediants and now taste like crap. I bought some suzi-q's the other day and everything in it tasted bad...I wish they would go back to the original recipes. Even twinkies suck now.

[SemperEadem]

3. I just watched a segment

of America's Test Kitchen where they came up with their even better recipe for the Hostess Cupcake. I'm sure what the company is making now is nothing like the cupcakes I used to eat back in the late 60's early 70's when I was a kid.

[DCKit]

5. Styrofoam filled with artificially flavored shortening. What's not to like? nt