Hostess wasn’t capable of offering competitive wages, and so its employees rightfully determined that they could find competitive wages elsewhere. Isn’t this exactly how labor is supposed to behave in the free market paradigm?

ernesto

Um…no…they aren’t finding competitive wages anywhere now. Just figuring out how to exploit the government benefits system.

There are probably plenty of people that would work in their stead in this economy. It is a seller’s (employer’s) market, not a buyer’s (employee’s) market. Employers can pick and choose, since there is a glut of workers.

After all, it isn’t rocket science with all the automation. Ask anyone who has watched the Food Channel for a while.

A learning curve and some experience, certainly. But they aren’t baking that stuff by hand over an open fire.

26 years and already he’s moved up to bun handler. I need this guys resume. Apparently a real self-starter.

BobMbx on November 22, 2012 at 3:10 PM

menial task any healthy high school drop out could do getting paid probably in excess of $20 an hour.

“They have taken and taken and taken from us,” said Debi White, who has worked at Hostess for 26 years, most recently as a bun handler at its bread and roll plant in Lenexa, Kansas.

26 years and already he’s moved up to bun handler. I need this guys resume. Apparently a real self-starter.

They went Galt.

RINOs are people too on November 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM

To a degree, it sure seems like it. Salting the Earth like the supposed hero’s of Atlas Shrugged did.

Could someone please explain to me what a bun handler does?

Hot Gas on November 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM

If you can hook me up with Eva Mendes, I’ll gladly demonstrate.

Could someone please explain to me what a bun handler does?

Hot Gas on November 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM

I could, but my girlfriend would punch me so hard my John Thomas would turn inside out. X-D