Goodbye Twinkies.

[Occhidiangela]

My impression is that Hostess was a sinking ship and it was just a matter of when.

Apparently so, for the last ten or fifteen years.

kandrathe: that situation was pretty obvious back during Clinton's administration, but was masked by the tech bubble.

*pause for a moment, Stan Rogers, Barrett's Privateers*

I first go to know the Teamsters back then due to where I worked. It was interesting to see how that organization was of two minds: one, the old "management is the enemy and all else is rubbish" and the other "we need to keep this company alive to keep our union strong."

The iron law of wages cares not for borders.

Nystul: the NFLPA and UPS seem to have some interesting similarities in income disparity.