re: #92 freetoken

And now, for some really tragic news of the day:

Strike threat at Hostess could kill off Twinkies

No more twinkies.

Not sure the world is ready for this.

Not trying to bag on unions here, but some do have a propensity for cutting their noses off to spite their faces, because I saw it happen with the UAW local at the former Peterbilt plant here in Nashville.

In part because the union was unwilling to compromise on insurance costs and pension contributions, PACCAR shut the plant down after 40+ years, moved the bulk of that plant’s production to their non-union Peterbilt plant in Denton, TX, and put about 1000+ people permanently out of work (not to mention all the job and financial losses incurred by their local suppliers).

I worked as a Pinkerton guard at that plant for six years (1996-2002) and saw one strike there firsthand that stretched on for 6-8 months (1998); there were two more strikes/lockouts in the intervening 10 years or so before the end. While I had good relations with most of the employees I dealt with, salaried and hourly, some of the worst were usually the union reps, especially the higher-ups. You’ve never seen people who thought that they were King Shit like some of them; egos the size of the trucks built there.