Union Strike Results in Closing of Plant and Loss of Jobs

Union Strike Results in Closing of Plant and Loss of Jobs: I’ve written before about why I don’t like unions and how they have done more harm than good in many areas. I’ve seen them cause hundreds of families to lose their homes during strikes while the union representatives continued to get paid. During the election campaigns, union members in Massachusetts were fined for not showing up to support Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.

Now, in Cincinnati, Seattle and St. Louis, a strike by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union has resulted in shut down of three Hostess facilities and 627 workers losing their jobs. They were striking over cuts in wages and benefits that the company had put in place. Hostess had stopped contributing to the employee’s pension fund last year. In September, the union rejected Hostess’s contract offer and decided it would be better to go on strike.

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