Amazing, but not atypical of a lot of thinking in this country these days:
The union that brought the 85-year-old baker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread to its knees is holding out hope that a buyer will salvage chunks of the company and send the union’s members back to work, even as Hostess Brands Inc. gears up for a fire sale.
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While Hostess has said the shutdown would result in the loss of more than 18,000 jobs and place the fate of more than 30 American brands in jeopardy, union President Frank Hurt said he believed there was “more than a good chance” that a buyer quickly would swoop in to buy the profitable parts of the company and give his union’s members their jobs back.
Give them “their” jobs back?
See, if I was a buyer, the last people I’d hire are those whose inability to think beyond what the union demanded they do that caused a company to liquidate and “their” jobs to go away. Because I’d not want to give them the chance to gum up the works at my company. So I’d ensure that they understood that “their” jobs went with Hostess.
By the way, Frank Hurt isn’t hurting. He’s still got his six-figure job with the union that “their” jobs, since gone, helped pay for.
Said Teamster Luigi Peruzzi, a Hostess driver in Detroit for 25 years:
“I think they [the Baker’s union]made a terrible choice based solely on terrible information from their leadership.”
Not that their “leadership” will suffer for it or anything.
~McQ