Maine’s striking Hostess workers say company’s collapse a strong message of union resolve

Seems more like" If you don't do what I say, I'll kill myself."

What would we do without experts ... and professors?

The union’s willingness to go down with the sinking ship — and in some cases take credit for sinking it — in the Hostess case may prove to corporate investors that the working class must be reckoned with, said University of Southern Maine economist and labor relations expert Michael Hillard.
 

The union wins (the workers, not so much).

Biddeford Mayor Alan Casavant said, “philosophically, I think the union wins” in the Hostess standoff.

“They’re saying to the world at large, ‘We deserve a working income. We work hard, we deserve a living wage, and we don’t just want to be pawns in a corporate game,’” he said. “There’s a philosophical victory. But in an economic sense, you’re walking a fine line, because all of a sudden you’re cast into a void of not knowing what tomorrow brings… Putting myself in their shoes, I’d be scared, because there’s so much uncertainty in this economy.”

 

Don't worry Al.  There's not a lot of uncertainty.  The economy is either treading water or headed for another recession.  The workers without jobs will now get 99 weeks of unemployment, food stamps, an ObamaPhone and are at the top of the list to vote for the next Democrat.  Win/win.