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Union workers gave, but Hostess balked
http://www.jdnews.com/opinion/letters/union-workers-gave-but-hostess-balked-1.71257
By Glenn Harvey
Published: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 19:24 PM.
To the editor:
This letter is in response to the Nov. 26 editorial in The Daily News headlined, “Union tussle takes bite out of Twinkies.”
I am the branch president of the Union Branch 3984 of the National Association of Letter Carriers in Jacksonville and I am proud to be a union member and workers’ advocate.
The editorial stated that “a union strike is the demise of the Twinkie and other Hostess products.” The truth is: Hostess failed and had to file for bankruptcy due to bad management — not because of its workers.
The editorial went on to say that Hostess had asked union workers to take an 8 percent pay cut as part of a restructuring aimed at saving the company and the union refused. That is partly true; however, concessions asked of union workers reached between 27 percent to 32 percent of overall compensation, which included pay cuts as well as increases in health-benefits costs.
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