Economy
In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 9 July 2013 [View all]Tansy_Gold
(17,816 posts)HT to cali over in GD http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023206225
<snip> Eight months after Hostess closed amid labor strife, its former workers have had divergent paths, but many of them have failed to regain their previous income levels. Hostess moved to liquidate in November shortly after the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers International Union went on strike in response to a new contract imposed on them at a bankruptcy court's direction. The bakers balked at the company's cessation of pension contributions. Hostess later admitted to using wages that were supposed to help fund pensions for the company's operations.
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What's frightening is how many of the commenters on that thread just plain don't get it. And it's the ignorance and blindness in our own "party" (I use the term reluctantly) that allows the other party to make it all happen.
Is American Idol on tonight? Dancing with the Stars? Shameless twits of some nameless state?