Unions and Snackcakes

The story of Hostess is a company closing because it can’t get its workers to work for peanuts. Not sad. nytimes.com/reuters/2012/1…

— Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) November 16, 2012

Sarah Jaffe is a great resource for more on the Hostess mess and how it’s actually part of THE CLASS WAR. Here’s a link to a Storify she created of smart Tweets on the subject, and here’s a statement from AFL-CIO that she linked to. Her own must-read post starts: “The closing of Hostess is union-busting, pure and simple.”

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