# 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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**Author:** ![Jammer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jammer/32/6349_2.png) [@Jammer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jammer)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hostess-out-of-business-18-500-jobs-to-be-lost/265503/88 "2012-12-03T20:38:42Z")

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> [@\*\*\*\*Official: Southgate Meet Thread\*\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-southgate-meet-thread/29171/2992):
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> Without unions you wouldnt have the nice luxuries at your job today.
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> -40 hour work week
> 
> - 5 day work week
> - OSHA and safety regulations
> - Fringe benefits (health, dental, vacation, retirement)
> - overtime
> - End child labor
> - Made sure people like Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie didn’t have total control over a worker’s life.
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> and so much more. Don’t completely hate on unions. They have given the American workforce a lot to be happy about.

At what cost?

I wish you would agree the unions had a time and place and were definatley necessary… but many have become too powerful and too political. There are plenty of reasons Unions were needed, and still are in many cases… but they have gotten way out of control and the adgenda has changed

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