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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Ross on March 16, 2013, 10:23:15 AM

Title: Ex-Hostess workers land sweet deal, taxpayers foot bill
Post by: Ross on March 16, 2013, 10:23:15 AM
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Ex-Hostess workers land sweet deal, taxpayers foot bill

FLUFF FILLING: The U.S. Department of Labor has been short on specifics regarding its claim that Hostess went out of business because of foreign trade.

By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog

OSAWATOMIE — It's been four months since the iconic Twinkie began disappearing from store shelves nationwide. While some have speculated the golden sponge cake could survive the apocalypse itself, its undoing was something else entirely: unreasonable demands from an uncompromising labor union.

Apparently the federal government didn't get the memo.

Officials at the U.S. Department of Labor claim it wasn't the decision of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union to go on strike that finally brought about the Twinkie's demise, but rather the increased import and sale of products from Hostess' foreign competitors.

Wait, what?

Read it at FLUFF FILLING:   http://watchdog.org/75060/former-hostess-workers-land-sweet-deal-taxpayers-foot-bill/