storchheim::::Now that the safety net is in place, and we have essentially free education and training for anyone who wants it

No, it is NOT free, someone is paying for it somewhere. I don't understand how it's so easy for some to forget that.

ryderted::::It means working 80 hours a week for peanuts with no healthcare or benefits and little care for worker safety. You know like our great, great, great grandfathers did.

I worked public jobs from the late 60's to 1998, rest of my work time was on farms. Never, EVER have I worked a job with a union controlling things. I was never mistreated by any boss except for one time, and he got a pastrami sandwich, funyums and soda thrown in his face for that. I STILL made great money on that job and would be doing it now if I could. Unions have absolutely NOTHING to offer me.

When you have not worked in six months, you hope for death. I am noticing RM does not have a chicken plant you can work in.

TJPC::::cut the workers pay by 8% and cut their benefits by almost 20%. What are they supposed to do? Say thank you and continue to work? Is that really what YOU would do in the same situation.

I'd go to work and keep the job in order to put food on the table. This is just stupid all the way around. If I had a business and was looking to hire people, these folks would NOT be people I would hire. Some of you act like the people that own the business have no right to earn a profit. They DO. The people that worked here gave up jobs that a lot of people would love to have just to be able to eat and pay some bills. I wonder what was going through their minds when they agreed to this.

Uh, I don't think one can collect unemployment if you are out of work because of a strike. One of the downsides of a union. Used to be the Union would pay workers a small stipend but I doubt that is happening any more. But what other weapon do workers have? Besides do you really think Welfare, Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security ran up the national debt? And Medicare and Social Security are not "entitlement programs", they are earned benefits. If you are old enough to work, you are paying into it. I know its a precarious situation for younger workers, and that's not right, but if you've worked 40 years, you've earned it.

How long do these people think they can collect Unemployment checks when America is at the very edge of the Debt cliff? The Rats in the Fed. Gov. have overspent to the point of Complete Economic Crash/Failure/Bankruptcy. Elections have consequences and we are about to find out the hard way. Class warfare, TAX the RICH, is just plain DUMB...if Obam took every cent from the Rich, it would not last 3 months. The Actual DEBT of the USA today is hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars in UN Funded entitlements, such as Unemployment, Welfare,Food Stmps, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and now Obamacare.

Their items have gotten so expensive I dont buy them anymore. There is no much difference in the taste of bread. I am very comfortable with the store brand. Sometimes it is wise to be thankful for what you have and not worry about what you dont have. The plant will close and they will have nothing. That has become the American way. If they cant have what they want they prefer to having nothing.

Socialism is not business friendly.

So the Union won the battle over not allowing its members to work without a wage/benefit package that suited them but lost the war and jobs for many of its members? Who won in this scenario? Nobody! Thanks Union, from all the newly unemployed. This message courtesy of a non-union employed person.

Grupo Bmbo or another baking conglomerate will buy them. Twinkies and Wonder Bread have high brand recognition and are worth serious money.joeBob Do you think they'll purchase the union contract? Hire the same employees at the new company? Employee the same number that lost their jobs?

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