Workers Honor Pickets (Hostess Brands across the country began to strike)

[Omaha Steve]

http://bctgm.org/2012/11/bctgm-members-initiate-national-strike-at-hostess-brands/

Posted by BCTGM - November 13, 2012



On Friday, November 9 BCTGM members employed by Hostess Brands across the country began to strike. These workers, many of whom have worked at Hostess and its predecessor companies for decades, are on strike in response to the company’s unilateral imposition of a horrendous contract that was rejected by 92 percent of BCTGM Hostess workers in September.

Stay tuned to this website for further news and developments in the Hostess Strike. See full November 9 press release, November 13 press release and fact sheet at the bottom of this page.

Honoring

UPDATE: November 13: 12:10 a.m – BCTGM Local 503 members employed at the Rocky Mount, N.C. Hostess production facility began honoring the picket lines established by the striking Local 103 members from Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla.

UPDATE: November 12: 12:10 a.m – BCTGM Local 57 members employed at the Hostess Butternut facility in Cincinnati, Ohio began honoring the picket line established by the striking Local 19 members from Northwood, Ohio.

Honoring

UPDATE: November 11: 3:45 p.m. - BCTGM Local 25 members employed at the Hostess production facility in Knoxville, Tenn. began honoring the picket line established by the striking Local 103 members from Jacksonville, Fla.

FULL story at link.

What is the difference between striking and honoring a strike?

Some Hostess workers are free to strike because either the bankruptcy court so ruled, the local union terminated the existing collective bargaining agreement and is therefore free to strike under the National Labor Relations Act, or Hostess has implemented its final offer, freeing the workers to reject it via strike action. Those workers from locals that are striking may establish picket lines at other Hostess plants and, under BCTGM contract language that remains in effect, workers at those plants honor the strike picket lines and can stay off the job.

[Ratty]

1. Damn. Now I'm all hungry for SnoBalls. n/t

[leveymg]

2. Horrors. Call out the National Guard to man the Hostess HoHo factories!

We'll all be just skin and bones by Xmas!

[doc03]

3. What will I do without Suzi Qs?

[MrYikes]

4. and in Indiana

Columbus police say they've been called to the Dolly Madison plant on National Road six times since Friday for disturbances related to a strike against the maker of Twinkies. That includes an incident in which a metal socket was thrown through the rear window of a manager's car.

Union employees, who object to planned cuts to pensions and reduced pay by owner Hostess Brands, have been picketing the Columbus plant as part of a national strike against the food company. Hostess is trying to restructure and cut costs as part of its court-sanctioned bankruptcy reorganization plan.

"We're been called for disturbance-type things, harassment, threats as people cross the picket line," said Columbus police spokesman Lt. Matt Myers.

The socket-throwing episode occurred Saturday morning as a manager drove into the plant past picketers, Myers said.









and remember this is caused by bad management.

[Omaha Steve]

5. Remember the Scott Walker-Koch call by a blogger

The fake Koch asked Walker if they thought about hiring trouble makers to make the unions look bad. Something just like this could be done by others. Say maybe bad management!

[MrYikes]

6. no, I don't think so

a strike is supposed to be loud, messy, un-disciplined and to some down-right vulgar. Strikers are not at a tea party, they are fighting for their jobs, their homes, their lives. They never ask for much, just enough to survive, but the 1% can not let it alone. The 1% feel that if they are not acquiring that which Bill Gates has, they are being left behind, and they won't tolerate that.

The strikers are dangerous. They should be. They have an American right to be.