Washington Post: Unions did not kill Twinkies, but they’ll take the fall

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/11/16/unions-did-not-kill-twinkies-but-theyll-take-the-fall/?wprss=rss_politics

Good-bye, Twinkies.

To be honest, the demise of Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Ding-Dongs and Wonder Bread doesn’t seem like a tragedy for my taste buds. Those are the foods of my childhood. It’s the loss of 18,500 jobs that breaks my heart: 18,500 families across the United States at 33 plants, including one here in Kansas City, whose livelihoods are gone.



Hostess Brands Inc., the privately held company manufacturing the sugary snacks, announced it was filing a motion with U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday to shut down operations and sell off its brands. The company had set a 5 p.m. Thursday deadline for striking employees to go back to work.

Based in Irving, Tex., Hostess has been through bankruptcy twice in the last 10 years and just this past January had filed for Chapter 11 protection.

FULL story at link.