Or — suppose if more people with power over others had real Christmas spirit, especially at Christmas.
Take a company that is making a product that is valuable, is
paying its bills including its payroll, but is not generating much profit
(profit is what’s left over after paying all bills including salaries), and that
Take investors who buy the company knowing all these facts.
Then load the workers down with increasing demands on their
salaries to the point where it is obvious they will reject the last offers.
Then blame the “greedy” workers for rejecting that last
offer.
The result is a nice Christmas present for the investors and
top management: millions in profits for the investors and millions in bonuses
for the top management, which give them excellent reasons for going along with
the dissolving and selling off of the assets of the company.
And---18,000 plus skilled workers also get a Christmas
presents from the investors.” Sorry guys, all you have this year in your
stocking from Hostess are pinks slips!”
I’m sure that among the investors and top management are
plenty of people that attend church and consider themselves Christians. Go figure?
BAIL OUT HOSTESS SAVE 18,000+ JOBS HOSTESS is an American institution, just like the auto industry. Take back: 1. the company, 2. the CEO bonuses as rewards for bankrupting the company, 3. the pink slips. There is more at stake than just 18,000+ jobs. The 47% people need to wake up and draw a line in the freezing snow. The greedy 2% is alive and still pushing. Humbug to the 47%! Grandma Helen
I was watching CNN heroes last night and it made me feel better about the world. Those "heroes" saw people that needed help and helped them. Those investors saw people that needed help and instead helped themselves.
Our family (Dad, Mom and Daughter) run Young's Enumclaw Flowers and Gifts, and we do keep it all for ourselves----but------unfortunately----we divide up a pile of debt, long hours and hard work (still hopeful however). Our daughter Mary read your comment and now she has formed a one person union. It's a little mortifying to have our own daughter picketing ourside our front door!
Some union members act as if the union is the one cutting the checks, not the owners. And at the end of the day, the Customer is the one who decides if the product or service is worthwhile. In the case of Hostess it was probably a matter of time before they were targeted by Michelle O's campaign against fat kids.