Friday, November 16, 2012

Yummy Cupcakes No More?

Yummy cupcakes no more?

Just the other day I wrote a rant on teachers unions not realizing I was predicting the future in my piece. (Please read below on Unions)

I honestly had no idea that this was happening when I wrote it.

Hostess Cupcakes will close its doors. Their union is in the middle of striking.

The CEO says it doesn't matter if the strike ended a week ago, they still must close their doors.

So I want you to think about this for a second. The business has filed for bankruptcy twice since 2004. They have been hanging on by a thread running at a loss for years.

So what does their union do?

Go on strike! Think about that. Your company is dying and if you want to keep your job you should do everything in your power to help them. But instead, you walk out on strike to demand more from them?

Union president says that their failure is from a decade of financial mismanagement. As if he would know. But to me it doesn't matter. Your company is dying. Strike? How can putting the last nail in the coffin be the answer?

Their union has been battling them for years with strikes.

Like I said, unions choke off their companies until only the non-union companies are left standing with less competition.

Its a self correcting system in the free market. This is why you see very little unions in the private sector. The problem corrects itself.

Its also why you see the unions in the public sector instead. Where they can thrive because there is no failure. The failure just means higher taxes for the private sector.

So now 18,500 jobs will be lost because of unions. What else can you argue? That a company loosing money should have paid its workers more?

I wonder how may of those 18500 wanted nothing to do with the union, but had to go along because of the force unions use? How many would have been happy to stay at work but couldn't?

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