It´s the brand, not the workers that has value.

New owners will rush in with their money in their hot little hands, hardly able to wait to restore the union and its ´bargaining rights´. Idiots!

Really? How stupid can these people be? They were a major cause of Hostess Brands´ failure. Do they honestly think that any new owners - who owe NOTHING to the union - will employ any union workers?

Are they friggin´ nuts ????

Wanna bet they all voted obama too ???

In the WSJ today, Frank Hurt (the idiot in charge of the bakers´ union) said that a new buyer could be suprred to offer a better deal after seeing the bakers´ negative reaction to Hostess´ proposal.

In his dreams. He´s responsible for 18,500 people losing their jobs. Very few of them (if any) will be offered jobs by whoever buys the rights to Hostess products. Most likely, production will move to right-to-work states with non-union labor.

Not to worry, Frank. I´m sure you´ll keep your big salary.

Scroooommm!

Keep on hoping.
Ready to move to Mexico, union brothers and sisters?

Get rid of the greedy union thugs. Move the company to a right to work state. It is that simple. The unions are ruining this country.

The only asset that Bimbo is interested in buying is the rights to the brand names and the recipes, not the physical plants and the union thugs.

Have you ever noticed that the union "spokesperson" is always a wild eyed woman with a butt that is an ax handle broad and wears giant loop earrings?
And has a voice that would spay a tom cat at a distance of 100 yards.

Never see a reasonable talking person as a union spokesperson.

Agree, the brand is valuable. Some of the managers no doubt are worth retaining. Some of the plants, certain not all of them.

As cruel as it sounds the production employees are expendable. And the unionized bakers are the most, for they are the hardest to deal with.

Sans the Union folks...bring the thugs with you and it´s a non-starter!

Just remember that even the Teamsters accepted the 8% pay cut and there were many non-union Hostess workers. About 5,000 bakers union idiots lost 18,500 people their jobs. I would say the union bakers are the least likely to ever be reemployed as union bakers which is exactly what they deserve.

Rightio #9! Bimbo bought out Mrs Baird´s years ago--but they still ain´t baking bread in downtown Ft Worth anymore. BTW, ain´t it rich that these union idiots are hoping for someone to buy out a dead company to save them--I thought that was what they call "vulture capitalism"...

I´ll interview all job applicants for any new buyer.....
Me: Hi...welcome.
Applicant: Hi...I´d like to apply for a job.
Me: Have you ever been a union member...anywhere?
Applicant: Yes
Me: Next?

"Go along to get along, let´s see what the union can extort for us" fools must reap what they sow.

Interviewer: ´´Have you worker for Hostess before?´´
Interviewee: ´´Oh yes, I belonged to the union too´´
Interviewer: ´´Next...´´

Production will move to Mexico. Much of the rest (sales, marketing, distribution) will need to remain to service the market, though.

Notice that the hopes of the former workers are now news. Clearly, the union thinks they have some authority on where Hostess goes from here. The union and the employees are finished.

There are, however, no mentions of the hopes, dreams, and investment capital of the owners. Those are not news. But, it is strictly up to Hostess and their creditors on how the assets will be handled. Even if a ´savior´ is interested, the owners are under no obligation to cooperate. Hostess may be worth more in parts than as a whole.

The 18,000 former workers now have plenty of time to consider what they will or will not for do for various dollar amounts. Meanwhile, fat union leaders will have a fine Thanksgiving meal and plan their next walkout. Good luck, turkeys.

Delusional doesn´t begin to cover it.

I hear the weather is great in Mexico. Unfortunately, they do not care for unions. I recommend that you contact Barack Obama at he big white house in Washington DC and see if he can continue to give you the typical handout....Obama phone.

Fat chance if another company wants the baggage of unions.

since these demo union thugs believe that no job is better than the job they had... one can only hope they will lose their homes, their savings, their kids have to drop out of college........and to this I would say and a Merry Christmas to you too.

If the union believes it was not the problem and that it was the management they can throw the thing into Chapter 7 and bid for it using union funds to buy the company and then they can run it themselves.
Unions are like the old joke about the machine that is broken which shuts down the whole line until it can be fixed. The owner calls the engineer to come fix it and the engineer studies it and takes a hammer and bangs it once and the machine starts. The engineers charges $1,000. The owner demands an itemized statement and the engineer sends him one - hitting the machine with a hammer $10, knowing where to hit $990. The union is the $10 effort, they just forget that.

Some judge has ordered the company and the union back to the negotiation table. Apparently in the New America you can´t sell your company without the government allowing it.

Shut down the existing bakeries, sell the brand names & recipes to a A Right To Work State bakery... Make An Example of This!

Stupid liberals thought Obama would rush in, buy the business & give it to the union... aka GM.

Unfortunately for them, Mooch´s anti-sugar campaign won´t allow it!