Four DUMB Excuses

I am on the mailing list for MoveOn and generally find their email to be simple yet spunky. 

This is a good example in the sense that it talks of the evil Hostess owners and how wrong it is for them to blame workers who make less than $20.00 per hour. Ignoring the fact that if they are making less than $20.00 per hour they probably have no business discussing the macro-economic effect of unions on private industry.  They are sheep, maybe hard working sheep, but nevertheless sheep, led down the path to unemployment by a self-serving union.
Not that it will matter to MoveOn's moronic target market, but the owners did not blame the workers, they blamed the union.  They blamed the union for demanding work rules based on the illogical purpose of increasing the work force size.  This is contrary to lean manufacturing principles and contrary to good common sense.  Market demand should be the main factor in deciding workforce size.  Market competitiveness is also the best for setting both prices of goods sold and wages paid.
Like a governement, as a business piles on unproductive costs, durability and competiveness suffer.

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