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Bittersweet question: Is Hostess management or union getting just deserts?
With all the sugar-frosted eulogies for Twinkies, Ho Hos, Wonder Bread and other foodstuffs from Hostess Brands, one might forget that about 18,000 jobs hung on the fate of the bankrupt company. Sorry, Mom. Guess we're still filling up on snacks and...
Tags: Breads, Strikes, Labor Legislation, Chicago Tribune, Companies and Corporations
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Scott's Budget 3.0 has something for everyone
TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Rick Scott didn't become a titan in the health-care industry by staying on the wrong slope of the learning curve. And what a transformation two years has made to the one-time tea-partyer. The Scott of 2011 rode into...
Tags: Everglades, Teaching and Learning, Don Gaetz, Health Insurance, Finance
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Digesting the Twinkies' lessons
"All Gods were immortal." -- Stanislaw Lec WASHINGTON -- And also brands, the gods of the marketplace. Earthquakes may strike, dynasties may fall and locusts may devour the crops, but Oldsmobile and Pan Am are forever. Never mind. But about the...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Lobbying, Business Institutions, Breads, Unions
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Poor management, not union intransigence, killed Hostess
Let's get a few things clear. Hostess didn't fail for any of the reasons you've been fed. It didn't fail because Americans demanded more healthful food than its Twinkies and Ho-Hos snack cakes. It didn't fail because its unions wanted it to die. It...Tags: Advertising, Interior Policy, Inventories, Employment, Finance
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Unions, Boomers Digesting Twinkies' Lesson
The Hartford Courant"All Gods were immortal." — Stanislaw Lec And also brands, the gods of the marketplace. Earthquakes may strike, dynasties may fall and locusts may devour the crops, but Oldsmobile and Pan Am are forever. Never mind. But about the death of...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Lobbying, Business Institutions, Breads, Unions
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Twinkies survive a lot, but not union
There's an old wives' tale that Hostess Twinkies could survive a nuclear war. They couldn't, of course, and neither could they survive a vote to kill the company by the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union. That'...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Consumers, Unions, Hostess Brands, Inc.
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Time runs out for Hostess, judge approves liquidation plan
Time finally ran out for Hostess Brands on Wednesday, as a bankruptcy judge gave preliminary approval to the baker's request to liquidate the 82-year old company. A last-ditch attempt to mediate a pay-and-benefits dispute between the company and its...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Financially Distressed Companies, Hostess Brands, Inc., Judges, Employees
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Greuel, Garcetti courted big labor group for endorsement
L.A. NOWAs she sought the endorsement of the county’s most influential public employee union Tuesday, mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel dismissed criticism of her backing from organized labor, saying unions are not political "baggage." “When I go out... -
L.A. Votes: Hollywood, Texas billionaire weigh in on mayor's race
L.A. NOWLos Angeles' election day is rapidly approaching. That's clear from the candidates' frenzied schedules, the money pouring into increasingly ubiquitous television campaign ads and the glossy pitches and hit pieces piling into mailboxes.... -
New independent fundraising group backing Garcetti
L.A. NOWThis post has been corrected. See below for details. Supporters of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti are launching an independent campaign to raise and spend money on his behalf in an effort to even the playing field with his...... -
Arguments in shipyard-union case set for March
Last week the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear together oral arguments in challenges to two agency decisions upholding new unions, including one at Newport News Shipbuilding. The Daily Press first reported on the fledging machinists...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Work Relations, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Employees, Shipbuilding
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Spending in L.A. mayor's race breaks records
Spending in the hotly contested two-year race for Los Angeles mayor exceeded $33 million on Saturday, breaking previous records as unlimited outside money continued to play a dominant role in Tuesday's contest. Candidate super PACs and so-called...
Tags: Eli Broad, Port of Los Angeles, Jose Huizar, Antonio Villaraigosa, Eric Garcetti
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