# Hostess  out of business; 18,500 jobs to be lost

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**Created:** [November 16, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hostess-out-of-business-18-500-jobs-to-be-lost/265503 "2012-11-16T05:34:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hostess-out-of-business-18-500-jobs-to-be-lost/265503/29 "2012-11-16T17:16:27Z")

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> [@wtb rims ford bolt pattern](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-rims-ford-bolt-pattern/51029/15):
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> The UTU sucks for me on a local level. The company doesn’t honor the contract and the union says “oh they can do that”. I pay $100 a month for a parking spot. I agree with people bitching that unions protect lazy people, but it protects good workers that makes a mistake from being fired on the spot. It also protects the employee from being bullied by a big corp. I’m talking about what i have seen personally with the company I work for and the union I belong to.

I’m not against unions by any means. Protecting the employees is great. My father was in a union, lived comfortably always working, and retired with a good pension. But he also wasn’t a lazy one.

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