Unions today spend more money keeping their rotten corpse alive through thuggery, make-work jobs, compulsory unionism, and lobbying than on helping employees learn new job skills or cope with unemployment.
Finally, an American company decides not to take any more crap from unions.
In 2005, Hostess monkeyed around with the filling re-introducing the banana-filled version of Twinkies.
Jose Lopez, a 24 year Hostess machine operator, strikes in front the Columbo Bread factory operated by Hostess on Nov. 16, 2012 in Oakland, Calif. After dealing with the labor strike, Hostess announced it would be going out of business because of financial troubles.
The following brands may soon disappear: Hostess, Wonder, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Drake's, Butternut, Home Pride and Merita.
Detroit was once a vibrant and beautiful city. Here is what it looks like today after unions destroyed its automotive industry.
Every union in this country employs the technique of making sure the job isn't done in one visit so that three times as many employees are needed to get the job done.
Unions are one of the reasons we have the worst roads, the worst infrastructure, the worst cars, the worst products, and the worst service in the world. I cannot wait for the day that we rid this nation of unions altogether.
This financial crisis is forcing California agencies
to make some tough decisions
When the owners of the Stella D'oro biscuit factory in the Bronx told the workers of Local 50 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers that the plant could not continue to operate unless they took a pay cut from their $18-$23 per hour jobs and a reduction of the 9 weeks of paid leave, 134 workers went on a 10 month strike rather than save the plant.
